Alex Calabrese says Britain could learn from his ‘problem-solving’ courts in Brooklyn – and the justice secretary seems to be listeningThe justice secretary has been urged to grant magistrates greater freedom in dealing with offenders so that they turn around lives rather than increase the prison population.
Judge Alex Calabrese,who presides over criminal courts in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and met Michael Gove this month to expound on the pioneering US community courts he oversees. The 62-year-old current Yorker – who deals with addicts,serial shoplifters and cases of violence – was in London to encourage the justice secretary to convert British courts and boost rehabilitation rates.
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Source: theguardian.com