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UK: 'Legalise Drugs' says prisons boss
Sky News
Monday 09 Jul 2001 The outgoing chief inspector of Britain's prisons has called for the decriminalisation of all drugs.Sir David Ramsbotham said making drugs available on prescription would help reduce crime. He said his experience of the prison system had convinced him of the link between the drugs trade and crime. Sir David said: "The more I think about it and the more I look at what's happening, the more I can see the logic of legalising drugs, because the misery that is caused by the people who are making criminal profit is so appalling." Speaking after former Tory Party deputy leader Peter Lilley called for the decriminalisation of cannabis he added: "I've come a very long way through exposure to what the drug culture has done to the people I am seeing in prison, their families and the community from which they come." During a visit to a drug-free wing at Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire Sir David also criticised ministers for failing to provide proper funding to the service. He said: "All I see are cuts, cuts, cuts. Now what does that say about policy? Is the policy really about protecting the public by preventing crime or is it to reduce the cost of imprisonment?"
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