“Mae carchardai’n hynod ddrud i’w rhedeg, hyd yn oed cyn ichi ystyried y gost ddynol. Pe gallem gyflawni arbedion drwy leihau poblogaeth carchardai, gellid ailfuddsoddi’r arbedion hynny mewn rhaglenni triniaeth, neu mewn gwella cymorth cyfreithiol, neu pwy a ŵyr beth arall.”
“Prisons cost a fortune to run, even before you consider the human cost. If we could make savings through reducing the prison population, those savings could be reinvested on treatment programmes, or to improve legal aid, or who knows what else.”