SENDING more people to jail is not the way forward, a leading county homeless worker has said.Yesterday, The Citizen told how magistrates in Gloucestershire were twice as likely to give someone a prison sentence than magistrates in some other parts of the country.The charity Howard League for Penal Reform is calling for community service to be favoured.Brian Jones, chief executive of the former GEAR project, which worked with homeless people in the county, said: "Community service plays a...
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