Novel approach: reading courses as an alternative to prison

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In Texas, offenders are being sent on reading courses instead of prison. Could it work in the UK? With one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, and the death penalty, the US state of Texas seems the last place to embrace a liberal-minded alternative to prison. But when Mitchell Rouse was convicted of two drug offences in Houston, the former x-ray technician who faced a 60-year prison …

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