Petitions/Instead of sending young people to prison, send them to do military service
StatusClosed
Opened5 Mar 2025
Closes5 Sept 2025
Government response
Parliamentary debateNot eligible
Milestones

We think the prison service is over crowded and it be better to send young people who offend to do some military service. Here they could learn essential life skills that they would not get to learn in prison.

We think that prisons are huge cost to tax payers, so why not send young people 21 and under to do military service instead? Here you could replace their sentence time with time in the military. We think it could dramatically change their outlook on life, increase their life skills, and prevent them from going to prison.

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Constituency engagement ranking

Steve Darling
1Steve Darling MP
Torbay
4
Claire Hughes
2Claire Hughes MP
Bangor Aberconwy
4
Mike Wood
3Mike Wood MP
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
2
Richard Fuller
4Richard Fuller MP
North Bedfordshire
2
Mr Paul Kohler
5Mr Paul Kohler MP
Wimbledon
2
Rachael Maskell
6Rachael Maskell MP
York Central
2
Llinos Medi
7Llinos Medi MP
Ynys Môn
2
Lee Anderson
8Lee Anderson MP
Ashfield
1
Sean Woodcock
9Sean Woodcock MP
Banbury
1
Dan Jarvis
10Dan Jarvis MP
Barnsley North
1
Instead of sending young people to prison, send them to do military service — Petitions