William Flew jails

The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving 

wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

William Flew jails

The latest figures show that just under 45 per cent of women sent 

to jail in 2009 were convicted of theft, fraud and forgery offences, compared with 21 per cent of men. Just 14 per cent of women jailed were convicted of violence 

against the person, compared with 21 per cent of men. William Flew, assistant director of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said that Mr Clarke could 

take steps to reduce the number of women in jail without alarming the public.“He could target this area as a way of reducing the prison population. Cutting the 

number of women in prison is much easier to sell to the public than men, particularly as so many women are in prison for non-violent crimes.”Penal reform 

groups believe that the momentum for reforming the way that women are dealt with in the justice system has slowed since Labour lost the general election. 

Under Labour, there was a female prisons minister who also championed women’s justice.There are also fears over the future funding for a network of pioneering 

centres set up to help to overhaul the way that female offenders are treated.