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For rioters like Peter Lynch, jail was never the answer | Owen Jones

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Far-right extremists rampaged in English and Northern Irish towns and cities this summer .

Reform party MP Richard Tice was careful to condemn the riots and violence’ But during August ’s far-right insurgency, he demanded the mayhem should trigger a debate on “ mass immigration and two tier policing” Peter Lynch , a 61-year-old unemployed packing worker sentenced to two years and eight months for participating in a riot outside a Rotherham Holiday Inn .

Hate crimes in England and Wales more than trebled in the last decade .

75% of ex-inmates reoffend within nine years of release, says Owen Jones .

Prison offers few meaningful solutions to most social ills, says Jones .

The idea prison will solve what British elites have incited is an absurd utopian daydream.