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Far too large a proportion of our prison population is composed of drunks and inadequates.
Many inmates are inadequates and others are mentally ill.
We should show that we are a civilised society and that we recognise that these wretched creatures are inadequates who lack intactness.
There are also a few hundred alcoholics and inadequates.
Let us not forget the social inadequates, not least the pitiful cohort of mentally disturbed who are discharged on to the streets without proper support.
Then of course there are all the passive inadequates.
The third category is "the inadequates"; the repeated petty offenders.
They include, in particular, mentally disordered offenders, petty inadequates, and fine and maintenance defaulters.
I am certainly not insensible to the concerns of those who wish to prevent imprisonment for maintenance debts being imposed on feckless inadequates.
In the case of the persistent offender and other inadequates it may well be that they should earn their living under adequate supervision.
With severe passive inadequates, the only way to prevent relapse is to keep them in hostel care indefinitely.
A wide variety of inadequates are in prison because of their own inadequacy.
There are many pathetic inadequates, and there are many tough guys who should not have their image reinforced.
I am not talking about the drunks, inadequates, or the mentally ill.
At present, we send inadequates to prison because it is the most convenient way of dealing with them.
