Can Labour sell a softer prisons policy?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : But some time this year he will have to unveil his action plan, as well as his delayed proposals for social care.
53% : For Kemi Badenoch, whose message amounted to little more than "watch this space", this has to be the year she gets the Tories back into the conversation, which to my mind means leading on the economy and pinning a flatlining GDP on the failures of the Budget.
53% : Given Labour's current state in the polls, a truly bold plan that in effect creates a whole raft of new offences that no longer carry a jail threat, might just be one fight too many for a government that has yet to demonstrate a real talent for political persuasion.
52% : You may have seen the first thoughts of David Gauke, the former Tory justice secretary who has been cunningly co-opted to undertake a review of sentencing policy, just after Christmas.Gauke, a liberal-minded Tory, made the case for greater use of lower-security, open prisons for non-violent offenders, noting that in Spain up to a quarter of prisoners are housed as such.

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