The primary victims of this failure are all those who - often guilty of an offence, sometimes innocent, but nearly always poor - end up in detention which, though in most cases lawful and justified at the beginning, becomes arbitrary as the checks on its legality and necessity fail to work.
The primary victims of this failure are all those who - often guilty of an offence, sometimes innocent, but nearly always poor - end up in detention which, though in most cases lawful and justified at the beginning, becomes arbitrary as the checks on its legality and necessity fail to work.