#211 - Chris Daw QC - Why We Should Close All Prisons & Legalise Drugs

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Chris Daw is a Queens Council Barrister and an author.

Does the current UK justice system work? Is it rehabilitating offenders? Does it even deter them? Why are drug laws not working and why is the recidivism rate so high?

Chris has some radical propositions for a system he says is totally broken.

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0:00.0	Oh, howdy friends, welcome back.
0:03.4	My guest today is Chris Dorke UC and we're talking about the UK justice system, particularly
0:09.3	just how broken it is as far as Chris is concerned.
0:13.0	He thinks it's totally fucked.
0:15.0	The things that we need to close all prisons that children can never be criminals, that
0:19.8	we need to legalize drugs and that no one is either good nor evil.
0:25.2	Now I know that that sounds like the dreamy journal writing of a teenager that's just discovered
0:29.8	Karl Marx, but Chris is a Queens council barrister.
0:34.3	So he knows his law.
0:36.7	You can put it that way.
0:37.7	He's worth his soul and is highly regarded.
0:40.3	The BBC use him as a commentator on lots and lots of law issues going on in the UK.
0:47.0	It's a compelling argument.
0:48.0	I provide the counter narrative today and he's got an answer for pretty much everything
0:52.9	that I could throw at him.
0:54.2	So I'll be very interested to hear what your thoughts are on this.
0:57.4	Legitly the sort of visceral responses, fear of the other criminals need to be locked
1:02.2	up.
1:03.2	Don't we need to punish them blah blah blah.
1:05.6	But if the goal is to have a society in which crime is minimized and well being is maximized,
1:13.5	I think it's pretty difficult to make an argument against what Chris is saying here.
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