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The global mobile phone market is enjoying explosive growth. With annual unit sales in the hundreds of millions, Gartner analysts estimate that by 2009 the worldwide installed based will top 2.6 billion mobile handsets. For the Linux and Open Source segment of the IT industry, such numbers are tantalizing, orders of magnitude beyond shipments and even the installed base for servers, and far greater in volume than the worldwide desktop market. For the Linux software and related hardware markets, mobile phones are an opportunity to "break out" and enjoy greater market share in client devices, complementing the already important presence of Linux in the voice and data communications infrastructure.
Linux on the Move
In 2004 and 2005, Linux made strong gains as a mobile phone OS. In 2005, OEMs in the Asian marketplace shipped 10 million-15 million phones with almost two dozen phone models based on Linux. Top-brand OEMs LG, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic, and Samsung have a strong commitment to the Open Source OS; so do emerging Chinese brands like Datang, e28, Haier, Huawei, and ZTE.
In the July 2005 issue of LinuxWorld Magazine, I wrote an article describing why device OEMs, large and small, are choosing Linux as the strategic platform for their smart phones. That article focused on the mix of technical and economic motivators. This article looks at the challenges that still face Linux in attaining even greater ubiquity and design-wins in this dynamic global marketplace. It also introduces OSDL's newest effort, the Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI), describing how MLI members are striving to fill key gaps in the mobile Linux software stack.
Marketshare Gap
For all of the technical and economic benefits that Linux offers mobile device OEMs, Linux phones today account for less than 5% of the total market. In the fastest growing smart phone segment (85%/year according to Gartner), Linux enjoys a stronger position - 25% in Q2 2005 - far ahead of Windows Mobile, PalmOS, or RIM (but behind the SymbianOS). Mid-tier Linux phones are also making inroads into Japan's giant NTT DoCoMo network, with Panasonic and NEC shipping as many as five million mid-tier "feature phones". Panasonic's December 2005 announcement of its intention to focus on high-end phones based on Linux bodes well for the platform in Japan, where Linux phone share could climb to 15%-20% by 2007.
Technical Challenges
Experienced handset makers like Motorola, NEC, and Panasonic have clearly demonstrated that Linux-based mobile telephony is a reality. However, these companies and other established OEMs, as well as new entrants in the handset market, want the process of building Linux-based handsets to be easier, with faster time-to-market and better price-performance. In particular, they want to reduce the hardware BOM (Bill of Materials) burden needed to support a Linux-based phone stack, and to optimize the performance of key technologies.
As a result, at its most recent face-to-face meeting in Tokyo, OSDL's MLI agreed to focus on the following technical areas:
- Development Tools
- I/O and Networking
- Memory Management
- Multimedia
- Performance
- Power Management
- Security
- Storage
On one hand, GNU tools like GCC and GDB have formed the basis for all types of embedded development for the last decade. In the last two years, the Open Source Eclipse Project has emerged as the IDE framework of choice, and dozens of vendors now build their cross-development suites as derived Eclipse plug-ins. On the other hand, while GNU and Eclipse are "good enough," handset developers want more. They require smaller code to fit into limited RAM and flash and they want faster code to meet performance goals on clock-scaled mobile ARM processors. They want more intuitive debugging interfaces and standard hardware bridges to target devices that lack network connections and can have multiple symmetric and asymmetric cores (MCUs, DSPs, etc.). They want to be able to mix native C and C++ Linux coding with Java application development. And they want phone-specific tools that address Flash memory programming, performance analysis, baseband development, and handheld device simulation.
I/O and Networking
It's a fact of OEM life that the processors and peripherals deployed in handsets aren't the same as those found in enterprise equipment. As such, many SoCs (systems-on-chip) devices don't appear in the standard Linux architecture trees (even if CPU their cores do) and the peripherals on those chips lack publicly available drivers. Integrated serial, IrDA, USB, I2S, I2C, SPI/SSP, LCD, DMA, display, interrupt and memory controllers need reliable and readily available support, in Open Source, for CPUs like Intel's XScale, Texas Instruments' OMAP and Motorola's MX processors.
Handset-based networking presents its own additional challenges. Besides having access to MAC-level drivers for "normal" Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, they also need off-the-shelf interfaces for wireless voice networking: CDMA, GPRS, and other WAN chipsets present unique driver and stack requirements, and off-the-shelf call stack implementations today are proprietary and offer limited, poor, or no support for Linux.
Another "exotic" area is the need to bridge unexpected heterogeneous media types. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi-enabled phones may need to route voice streams to/from baseband and Bluetooth cordless phones in the home or Wi-Fi LANs for VoIP calling. They may have to route IP network traffic from a desktop computer connected via IP-over-USB to any of several wireless data channels. I even recall a simple customer request for IP-over-USB turning into a requirement for full-blown support for NFS over USB!
Memory Management
Mobile device memory management has its own unique, non-standard requirements. These include non-contiguous physical memory; heterogeneous memory types like volatile DRAM, battery-backed RAM, NAND and NOR Flash; application and OS execute in place; strong protection of base software, and field upgradable downloads of both platform and application software.
Another key memory management concern is out-of-memory handling. In enterprise Linux systems, low memory invokes a "reaper" that terminates "stale" processes to free up RAM; criteria for reaping in a phone must disallow disruption of phone service or other compromisd handset performance.
For smart phones and many mid-tier phones, OEMs need to port or fully reimplement complex audio and video capabilities to a Linux platform. Barriers to building next-generation multimedia start with the lack of a unified multimedia framework for Linux (which competing platforms have), and also include the lack of Linux-based DRM software, as well as issues surrounding patent-bearing media formats. Eschewing DRM and using patent-free open media formats isn't a realistic alternative for device OEMs.
For both the GPRS interface, and for other capabilities like multi-media, Linux still needs to move in the direction of RTOS-like responsiveness. Linux must meet deadlines and switch context adroitly in systems where clocks can slow to conserve battery power from 400MHz peak performance down to 40MHz (or even 0MHz) and back in response to policies and hardware events.
The current generation of ARM-based phone chipsets also feature silicon crammed with peripherals. SoC peripherals and secondary cores can be highly stateful with hard-to-program shared memory interfaces connecting them. These channels constitute a troublesome performance bottleneck.
Real-time and Radio Interfaces
In today's crop of Linux-based smart phones, the GPRS interface resides in an encapsulated "modem" containing a dedicated CPU core, a DSP, and RF hardware to support baseband communications. Offloading the radio function makes it easier to build a smart phone, but raises the cost by adding significant components to an already heavy BOM. While smart phones offer OEMs sufficient margins to bear this cost, the need for a self-contained modem limits Linux's ability to cover the broader market that includes feature phones and entry-level devices.
Theoretically, OEMs could remove the modem and expose the baseband interface to Linux, but doing so also exposes hard real-time requirements at the edge of the Linux response curve.
Power Management
Mobile device manufacturers today face a mind-boggling set of choices among Linux power and energy management schemes. OEMs can look to the desktop where notebook-centric ACPI and legacy apmd dominate (and indeed occupy most discussion of Linux power management on the kernel mailing list). For non-x86/IA-32 hardware, OEMs can turn to ARM's own energy management framework IEM (Intelligent Enery Management), or work with the various power management schemes present on silicon from over 200 ARM licenses (e.g., XScale or OMAP). There also exist unique and more divergent energy conservation protocols from MIPS, its licensees, from FreeScale for its CPU lines, from IBM for the Power architecture, from Renesas and Hitachi, and so on across the silicon supplier universe. OEMs can also build on software paradigms like MontaVista's DPM.
While choice is a good thing, too much choice leads to fragmentation, with OEMs seeking either an extension of existing schemes to address the heldheld space, or the establishment of an "umbrella" paradigm that bridges desktop, laptop, and handheld.
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These replies should have substance, expanding an idea, contesting a point, or giving personal examples. Feel free to post opinions that differ from the general trend of a conversation especially if you think groupthink is at work. From me, you can expect: Clear and open-ended questions and discussion topics. If I am obtuse or close- minded, do not hesitate to point that out. Prompt (usually 48 hours or less) responses to e-mail queries. I will read all your postings, but will usually respond only to correct a misunderstanding, provide support, or ask Socratic questions. I will help you navigate this course and provide referrals for technical glitches and learning resources. POSTINGS: I plan to visit the course room about every other day throughout the quarter. I will read everyone's contributions. The flow of the class depends upon your participation in the unit discussions. 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Some suggestions include becoming familiar with the local library Internet services and community college resources. It is even suggested that you seek out friends, family, and even coworkers who have Internet services in the event your computer crashes. That way you will stay current with your weekly assignments. – Ken Bausch 2 Syllabus 3 Introduction We have all experienced the benefits of dialogue when we openly and thoughtfully confront issues. We have also experienced the frustration of interminable discussion that does not lead to progress. Co-Laboratories of Democracy enable large, diverse groups to dialogue and generate positive results. Many group processes engender enthusiasm and good feeling as people share their concerns and hopes with each other. Co-Laboratories go beyond this initial euphoria to: Discover root causes; Adopt consensual action plans; Develop teams dedicated to implementing those plans; and Generate lasting bonds of respect, trust, and cooperation. Co-Laboratories achieve these results by respecting the autonomy of all participants, and utilizing an array of consensus tools – including discipline, technology and graphics – that allow the stakeholders to control the discussion. These are explained in depth in a book authored by Alexander N. Christakis with Kenneth C. Bausch: Co-Laboratories of Democracy: How People Harness Their Collective Wisdom to Create the Future (Information Age, 2006). Co-Laboratories are a refinement of Interactive Management, a decision and design methodology developed over the past 30 years to deal with very complex situations involving diverse stakeholders. It has been successfully employed all over the world in situations of uncertainty and conflict. On Cyprus, for example, it has been used to bridge the divide between the Turkish and Greek factions on the island. It is currently being employed on that island to help Palestinian authorities organize their government. Co-Laboratories in one day can draw together a diverse group of people on an issue, elicit authentic feelings and respectful listening, generate agreed upon language, and identify leverage points for effective action. Participants will be able to generate a consensual action plan. Co-Laboratories generate real respect, understanding, and cooperation among participants— and do it rapidly. 3 Syllabus 4 * * 8 This course will introduce you to Co-Laboratories using the above named book as a principal text. It will involve you in an online version called the WebScope that will give you hands-on experience with the process and let you experience its power. It will also situate this methodology in the history of dialogue and democracy. 4 Syllabus 5 SYLLABUS How People Harness their Collective Wisdom and Power Outline Unit One: Dialogue and Democracy Unit Two: Difficulties with Democracy Unit Three: The Global Picture Unit Four: Relieving the Burdens of Dialogue Unit Five: SDP in Action – WebScope - Responding to Triggering Question Unit Six: A Science of Dialogic Design – Clarifying Responses Unit Seven: Six Dialogue Laws – Voting on Importance Unit Eight: Online Synchronous Voting on Influence Unit Nine: Transformational Leadership – Design and Decision I Unit Ten: Web World – Design and Decision II 5 Syllabus 6 Unit One Dialogue and Democracy Dialogue and democracy grew up together in the agoras of ancient Greece. Dialogue is the essence of participative democracy. Such person-to-person democracy was effective only in local politics having a limited scope as was evident already in the time of Plato. Over the centuries, less dialogic forms of democracy have developed until we have a situation today where many of ―our‖ representatives are more beholden to the donors and fund-raisers than they are to us. In our society, dialogue is reserved for family or small group interaction. Co-Laboratories of Democracy are designed to increase the breadth of dialogue to groups of up to 200 people. They respect the autonomy of all participants and honor their power to construct their own futures in a timely and transparent manner. U1d1 (Unit One, Discussion One): Based on your experience, common sense, and readings, how would you characterize the relationship of dialogue to democracy in the United States today? U1d2: In your opinion, how much of our lives is ruled by agreements that we as a people have worked out among ourselves, and how much is ruled by impersonal systemic forces? Give 3 reasons for your answer and support it with real-life examples. 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U2d2: Google 3 out of the following list of methods that facilitate decision-making and democracy and indicate their strategies for overcoming the difficulties of democracy. America Speaks www.americaspeaks.org Center for Deliberative Polling http://cdp.stanford.edu Jefferson Center (Citizen Jury) www.jefferson-center.org National Issues Forum www.nifi.org Study Circles www.studycircles.org Viewpoint Learning www.viewpointlearning.org Chapter Three Plato http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Plato.htm Tuckman, B.W. (1965).Developmental Sequences in small Groups. Psychological Bulletin, 63, pp. 384-390. Jackson,M.C. (1991). Social Systems Theory and Practice: The need for a critical approach. Warfield, J.N. (1998). The magical number Three, plus or minus zero. 7 Syllabus 8 Unit Three The Global Picture What are the strengths of the Limits to Growth? What are its weaknesses? What has been the history of implementation of the 5 major prescriptions of the Club of Rome? How accurate are its projections? Based on your experience, common sense, and readings, how would you characterize the democracy that the United States urges on the world today? What is the relationship between democracy and capitalism? Christakis in CWC 2 Limits to Growth 8 Syllabus 9 Unit Four: Relieving the Burdens of Dialogue U4d1: Describe your experiences in decision-making meetings. Do you prefer leader/expert driven meetings or meetings in which the participants are responsible for the decisions. Explain your preference. U4d2: Which components of the SDP architecture can be carried out without computer assistance? Which of them are substantially enabled by software assistance? What are the positive and negative aspects of using computers in group decision-making meetings? Chapters 4 – 10 9 Syllabus 10 Unit Five: SDP in Action – Webscope – Responding to Triggering Question In this unit we will view applications of the SDP (Co-Laboratory) methodology. One application is face-to-face; the other is online and is called the WebScope. You are asked to participate as stakeholders in the following scenario. Blueford is a fictional small city 150 miles north of Atlanta, whose principal industry, Big Hawk Carpets, has just announced intentions to close its plant and move in six months to Mexico. Approximately 600 workers will be laid off and the city's unemployment rate will initially be 35%, but because of rollover effects could reach 60% in several years. 30% of Blueford's young people do not graduate from high school. Only 25% of them pursue education after high school. You are parents and professionals in Blueford. You are asked to participate in a YMCA- sponsored revitalization design process. The city council, the school board, and the local community college have promised to support your decisions to the best of their ability. Your assignment is to design the Blueford of the future using the SDP methodology. Preparatory to your first session a White Paper describing Blueford's situation has been prepared after interviewing a dozen people with varying viewpoints on the situation: Blueford is caught in a trend of cultural changes that affect its present and future. Some of them are: Toward big cities Toward intellectual work Toward some jobs being distributed via telecommunications Toward a service economy Toward small entrepreneurship Toward globalization. Caught in these trends: The city of Blueford faces a crisis of survival, Its citizens face economic hardship. Its people, especially the young, may make a mass exodus. Many of its youth may be permanently impoverished. Blueford faces several obstacles and challenges in facing its future: Small economic base Limited funds An angry and shocked citizenry No Chamber of Commerce 10 Syllabus 11 A history of mediocre participation in civic affairs Others that you can imagine and reasonably assume Among Blueford's assets are: An angry citizenry Values of honesty and mutual support Professional residents Retirees A popular high school football team A popular county fair A junior college A small tourist trade A state park and waterfall 10 miles away An interstate highway 20 miles away Three motels A fledgling drama group that does historical skits at the Holiday Inn Small farms Retail stores Weekly newspaper Successful former residents The soon-to-be vacant mill Others that you can imagine and reasonably assume. The first triggering question that you are asked to address is What factors (obstacles, challenges, assets) do we face in constructing the future of Blueford? This week you are each asked to contribute exactly three answers to this question. Try not to duplicate each others answers. Please try to make your contributions as succinct as possible. We anticipate that some of your statements will be very general and some very specific. Keep them to one sentence maximum. The words below are offered to help you formulate proposed factor statements: Conflict between… Understanding how to… Negative… Differing views of… Insuring that… Positive… Difficulty in… Creating… Ability to… Influence of… Developing… Presence of… Lack of… Valuing… Collective Will to… Achieving… Need for… Confidence to… Insufficient… Perception of… Determination to… Others… (the above are just suggestions). Then in the clarifications box, explain in one paragraph the meaning and importance of your factors. In the next unit, your fellow students will ask for further clarification of 11 Syllabus 12 your statement, while refraining from criticizing or disputing its wording. They and you will have the opportunity at that time to add statements to this week's triggering question. In addition, this week you are also asked to respond to the following discussion: U5d1: Do you believe this WebScope application will yield results similar to those achieved in the applications described in the text? Why or Why not? U5d2: What do you perceive are the relative strengths and weaknesses of the WebScope methodology in comparison with face-to-face Co-Laboratories with regard to honoring autonomy, involvement, impact, etc. Speak from your common sense. You will be asked a similar question at the end of the course. Chapters 11 – 18 http://www.leadingdesign.org/webscopedemo/ 12 Syllabus 13 Unit Six A Science of Dialogic Design – Clarifying Responses Dialogic design is set up as a tight axiomatic science; that is, given its axioms and definitions, its laws and practices logically follow. This week in the WebScope you are asked to probe the meanings of the statements proposed by your co-designers. You are also asked to respond to their questions about yours. The sole purpose of your dialogues is to understand each other. Should you disagree with a co-learner, do not assume that they are wrong. Instead, make a statement and clarification (ala last week) and be prepared to clarify it further in dialogue. By the end of this process, we will have constructed a consensual linguistic domain and be prepared to move on. U6d1: Explain the differences between instrumental, strategic, and communicative action. Give examples. U6d2: Give a story from your experience of a meeting where no consensual linguistic domain was established and what happened then and afterwards. U6d3: How do you understand the difference between rational and cognitive thinking. Which style works better in group design and decision-making? Why? Chapters 19-22 and 24 13 Syllabus 14 Unit Seven Six Dialogue Laws – Voting on Importance SDP is a science that honors the life experience, observations, and wisdom of people as they try to navigate their way is a complex world. Its axioms, definitions, and laws are designed to enable constructive dialogue in everyday language that can be managed logically and transparently. [To expedite matters, the knowledge development team has clustered the statements on their perceived similarity. It has also ascribed descriptive titles to the clusters.] Your job this week is to vote on the statements that you have come to understand on the basis of which ones you think are most important. You are each given five votes to pick five different statements that you feel are most important. Your votes will determine the 12 or so statements for the second voting next week on the basis of influence. U7d1: Do you agree with the text's tree of meaning involving the six laws? Would you like to propose a different order to spark discussion with your co-learners? U7d2: Explain the connection between observer-dependent data and third phase science. U7d3: Explain the three axioms of SDP and indicate how they are interrelated. Chapter 23 14 Syllabus 15 Unit Eight Online Synchronous Voting on Influence 15 Syllabus 16 Unit Nine Transformational Leadership – Design and Decision I In the past, leadership was seen as the attribute of a ―great man,‖ who got that title by reason of his birth, his appointment by more important men, or his election to office. This model of leadership is well-suited to the hierarchical structures of feudal and industrial civilizations. In the fast-changing and complex world of today, however, hierarchies are more and more dysfunctional. At the cutting edge of transformational change, a new type of leadership is emerging. In the WebScope this week, we build upon the foundational design work and influence tree that we have already completed. We will use a simplified version to generate actions and select those that are most essential to our evolving action plan to create the future of Blueford. In this step of the process, you will generate and clarify actions that answer the following triggering question. Given the factors revealed in the tree of meaning, what action options, if adopted and implemented by us, will help in the revitalization of Blueford? Toward the end of the week the knowledge management team will cluster the options into an options field. Then, as in the definition stage, you will vote for the five options that you feel are most important. The results of your votes will be made available to you at the beginning of next week. U9d1: Explain the book's distinctions between transactional, transforming, and transformational leadership. Provide examples for each type. U9d2: How do ―capillary power‖ and shared leadership work in a high performance design team, such as yourselves? Chapter 26 pp. 227 -232 16 Syllabus 17 Unit Ten WebWorld – Design and Decision II For this final unit you will break up into small groups of 4 or 5 each, whose members will share e-mail addresses (and telephone numbers if desired) with each other. Each member on the first day will think up a scenario in which Bluefield prospers and indicate 3 action options that would enable that scenario (and share it with the group via email). On the second day, you will start comparing your scenarios and action options. On the third and following days you will settle upon a likely story of how Bluefield comes to prosper, and you will select as a group 5-10 action items that will make that story possible. Each group will submit its scenario and action option votes in the discussion area. On the last day of class, we will again go synchronous to finalize our action option selections and generate an options profile. We will begin to superimpose the action items onto the tree of meaning as it is described on pages 239-230. If we do not have time to finish the superposition, we will seek volunteers to complete the process. Then the knowledge management team will put it into good form and send it to all of you. Everyone will have an opportunity to address the group at this time. U10d1: From your experience and readings, give an example of a self-organizing web and its history of development. Chapter 27 17


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Will my Sissoo survive?
will my sissoo tree survive? I'll be so devastated if it doesn't. It looks pretty bad right now. The top 2 thirds of leaves got killed by the last frost and I'm afraid this nasty one got what was left. The tree is about 2-3 years old, 20 or so ft tall and the trunk is about 5-6 inches in diameter. I've seen older sissoos survive pretty cold weather, but I don't know how this one will do. The only thing I did was that I sprayed it with water a couple of times before going to bed and once in the morning. I was hoping it would help it some. I noticed that the temperature around the tree dropped considerably after spraying with water, but I think that's still supposed to help. My thermometer went as low as 23 degrees I believe
I had a few that age during the big freeze of 2007. They looked the same way and came back once it warmed up. Don't cut off the dead stuff yet...and stop watering it ;) It helps a bit if you hose down the area *before* the freeze. I think you are just making it cold now. Hang tight and you'd be surprised what growth comes out once it heats up in the spring.
Well according to this link:
it says that spraying water on the tree during freezing weather actually protects it from the cold. While the temperature around the tree might drop because of evaporation, and freezing, A thin layer of ice forms that basically keeps the temperature on the inside of it from dropping below 32 degrees. So I understand that doing this is should be good for it.
I think my tree will be ok. I can't wait to see the new growth once it warms up. Heck, I can't wait for it to warm up. I'm so ready for 90 degrees.
Do not take this the wrong way, I just hope mine will die so I can plant a good tree. I pruned my Sissoo before the winter and now it looks like every leaf is going to come off. It is so messy and has a terrible shape that I would love to plant something different. My neighbors love the shade and my wife will not let me take out another tree (took out an ash because it was taking the nutrients from my roses).
I hate to say it but they are going to survive and we will be cleaning up leaves year around for a long time.
Yay... mine survived and it's doing great. What's that thing about cleaning leaves? Sheesh... why would one complain about Sissoo being messy. I mean honestly it's one of the least messy evergreens I could think of. So it lost its leaves because of the freeze, big deal, it's going to be green again, and I just don't think it's that bad. Certainly not as bad as African sumacs.


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Juliet Lyon: The prison population is neither justifiable nor sustainable
With numbers rocketing at the rate of a small jail a week, the Ministry of Justice has a straight choice: hold its nerve and redouble its efforts to cut any unnecessary use of imprisonment or cave in and go cap in hand to the Treasury for more money to pour down the prisons drain.
Sensible spending to cut crime should range from intensive work with serious and violent offenders in custody, for whom there are enough places already, through to breaking addictions and effective work with petty offenders in the community. The current prison population is neither justifiable nor sustainable.
There are important footholds for change. The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, currently before Parliament, should limit custodial remand to those on trial facing a real prospect of imprisonment. The Bill will sweep away the Kafkaesque indeterminate sentence for public protection and pave the way for a case by case review of the 3,500 people held beyond their sentence tariff. New clauses on women, young adults, restorative justice and rehabilitation of offenders could make for a fairer legislative framework.
Many of the solutions to prison overcrowding lie in public health and welfare measures. Enabling people to break addictions to drugs and drink would cut acquisitive crime, public disorder and violent offences like a stone. Funding just announced by the Department of Health puts a further £19.3million into ensuring that many people who are mentally ill, and those with learning disabilities, are diverted at police stations and courts into the care and health treatment they need. This move is supported by over one million professionals including the Royal College of Nursing, the Police Federation and both the Prison Governors and the Prison Officers Associations who form part of the 'Care not Custody' coalition led by the WI.
There is public backing for reform. A YouGov poll released this week shows that just 11% of people think that shoplifters should be jailed and most would rather see them paying a fine or doing community service. An ICM poll commissioned by the Prison Reform Trust four weeks after the August riots revealed overwhelming popular support for constructive ways for offenders to make amends for crime and disorder.
Juliet Lyon is Director of the Prison Reform Trust
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