Problem-solving model to keep offenders out of jail to be trialled at five courts in England and Wales
Ministers are to pilot New-York-style problem-solving courts, in which judges review the progress of offenders after they are sentenced to try to keep them out of jail, the Ministry of Justice said.
The model is to be trialled at five courts as part of a sentencing overhaul for England and Wales. However the moves include include other measures that are likely to put more pressure on the prison estate.
