Leeds: Should criminals be banned from bars and sports games rather than being jailed?

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Ministers have proposed banning criminals from sports games and bars as an alternative to jail time to help free up space in prisons. Do you think this is a good or bad idea?

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00:00For my own experience, obviously I'm not a criminal, but I am massively into sport and

00:04love football. I'm a Huddersfield Town fan, so I've been having a tough time recently,

00:09but me and my friends and my family are obsessed with sport. So to me, if that was taken away from

00:15me, that'd be a big, big part of my life. And obviously in Leeds with such a passionate fan

00:21base for the football team here, I would imagine it would affect some people if that was taken

00:26away. And obviously the pub side of it, a lot of people get in trouble because they're in the pub,

00:31so potentially that could be a deterrent for them to misbehave or have a couple too many pints and

00:36get into trouble. If the reasoning for that is just that there's not enough space in prisons,

00:42that kind of suggests to me that it's more out of desperation rather than the idea that it'd be good

00:51for reforming. Well, the problem is that the prisons are full, full stop. And that's it, the prisons are full.

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