To talk about retribution and certainty is to act as if the task after Pearl Harbor was to prove which unit had attacked America and to punish that unit - rather than to defeat and replace the governments of Japan, Germany, and Italy.

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However, on the same day the re-offending figures were released, the prisons watchdog attacked the closure of a unit with a proven record in rehabilitating teenage criminals.

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