People on the street: Football bans for criminals

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We went out into Manchester to ask people on the street about the suggestion that criminals could be banned from football games or pubs if rather than go to prison in order to cut down on prison overcrowding.

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00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World, my name's Theo Hewson-Vets and today I'm out in Manchester asking people about sports and crime.

00:06And that's because some ministers have suggested that instead of giving people prison time, in order to reduce prison capacities,

00:12we can instead hand out bans to sporting occasions and bars, in the hopes that this will prevent people from committing crimes.

00:18So we want to know if people think this is a good idea, whether they think it'll work, and what they could suggest as an alternative.

00:24I think it is sensible, I mean if you're the sort of person who's been that bad, you're not only banned, you could go to prison.

00:32I think it should be part of both, not just one or the other.

00:38Personally yes, because I think the prisons are overcrowded, but it's how well it's going to be policed.

00:44How they're going to keep an eye on these people, if they can't go into sports venues, bars, how well is that going to be policed?

00:50It is a good idea to understand the prison population, but they need to get on top of that.

00:54How would you do it without IDing everybody that walks in? I just don't know how you'd police that.

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