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Panorama: Tough Justice in Britain -Texas Style 

Panorama: Tough Justice in Britain - Texas Style

14/10/2015 GMT

Tough Justice in Britain -Texas Style 

BBC News - Panorama, Tough Justice in Britain -Texas Style

A look at the Texan rehabilitation-led prison reform that's sweeping through the US

Could Texas help the United Kingdom bring down its prison population, currently the highest in western Europe Panorama joins Michael Gove on a fact-finding mission.

Texas executes more people and locks up more offenders than anywhere else in America. But now this conservative state is the unlikely centre of a rehabilitation-led revolution in prison reform that's sweeping through the US. Crime is down, prisoner numbers have fallen and on top of this - they've cut costs. Could there be lessons for other countries?  The United Kingdom has the highest imprisonment rate in Western Europe. Panorama joins Michael Gove - the man in charge of British prisons - on a fact-finding mission to Texas.

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