Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

I haven't seen any evidence he did this. He's had mental health treatment in the past.

There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be more obtainable within the NHS; people's lives should be placed ahead of funding restraints and bureaucratic red tape. We need minimum standards of care and treatment agreed and implemented within the NHS to end the current nightmare of the postcode lottery—not just guidelines that can be ignored but actual regulations.

We know that earlier treatment of mental health problems is the best way to prevent the long-term consequences that we've seen from past wars.

I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.