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Recommendation 88

88

Damian Hinds MP assured us of his “commitment to high-quality community sentences and non-custodial alternatives...

Conclusion
Damian Hinds MP assured us of his “commitment to high-quality community sentences and non-custodial alternatives and to ensuring that … both are available”. 172 He told us that sentencers “must have the range of options to be able to choose what is right” in an individual case. 173 He argued that availability is “the first thing” that matters for sentencers to have “the confidence to know that what you think will happen … will happen”. 174
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