The consultation focused on extending and reforming community sentences, including the use of curfews and tagging - but Mr Grayling is not keen on reducing the number of prison places, so maybe he's less keen on increasing the number of crimes for which community punishment is the default option.

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Mr. RAMOS: And there are many educators that are already tagging our kids that if they come from a poor neighborhood, they come from a single-family home, they're going to fail, and that's the mentality.

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In his Commons statement on Monday, Mr Straw also set out controversial measures such as drug testing at arrest and electronic tagging.

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