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Tough Justice in Britain -Texas Style

Could Texas help the United Kingdom bring down its prison population, currently the highest in western Europe Panorama joins Michael Gove on a fact-finding mission.

Texas executes more people and locks up more offenders than anywhere else in America. But now this conservative state is the unlikely centre of a rehabilitation-led revolution in prison reform that's sweeping through the US. Crime is down, prisoner numbers have fallen and on top of this - they've cut costs. Could there be lessons for other countries? The United Kingdom has the highest imprisonment rate in Western Europe. Panorama joins Michael Gove - the man in charge of British prisons - on a fact-finding mission to Texas.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 22 Nov 2015 20:30GMT

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Role Contributor
Reporter Ian Birrell
Producer Judith Ahern
Editor Ceri Thomas

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