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Put crime victims first, says church.


OFFENDERS with mental health problems should not be in prison, says a new report by the Catholic Agency for Social Concern.

CASC's second report, People, Punishment, Prisons, recommends that overcrowding overcrowding

overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding.
 in jails is ended by a new Prison Rule ensuring ``no prison holds more prisoners than is provided for in its certified normal level of accommodation''.

The report calls for churches to start a debate on future strategy for crime and punishment Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, that was first published in the , putting victims first.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor said: ``The churches have an important contribution to the debate about law and order.''
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Publication:Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Date:Sep 13, 2002
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