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Schools like prisons, prisons like schools

The Conservative government's latest announcement is not as absurd as first seems.

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On Thursday 4 February UK Home Secretary Theresa May suggested in a speech that police and crime commissioners should be given the power to set up their own free schools. This would “bring together the two great reforms of the last parliament – police reform and school reform – to work with and possibly set up alternative provision free schools to support troubled children and prevent them from falling into a life of crime”.