Your editorial(社论) (The Guardian view on the prisons crisis: moving men into women’s jails is not the answer, 10 September) is right to argue that the prison capacity crisis cannot be solved through a series of short-term fixes(短期补救措施). Victims need confidence that the government has a credible long-term strategy for the criminal justice system, not another piecemeal intervention designed to buy time.(受害者需要相信政府有一套可信的刑事司法系统长期战略，而不是又一次为了争取时间而采取的零敲碎打的干预。)
你们9月10日的社论《卫报观点：监狱危机——把男性关进女子监狱并非解决之道》指出，监狱容量危机无法通过一系列短期补救措施来解决，这一点是正确的。受害者需要相信政府有一套可信的刑事司法系统长期战略，而不是又一次为了争取时间而采取的零敲碎打的干预。
I share your concern about the pressures facing probation services(缓刑服务机构). There are also legitimate(合理的) questions about the impact on policing, but we cannot discuss the prisons crisis without confronting the crisis(正视危机) in our courts.
我同样担忧缓刑服务机构面临的压力。关于对警务工作的影响，也存在合理的疑问，但我们在讨论监狱危机时，不能不正视法院系统的危机。
About one in five prisoners are now awaiting trial(等待审判), often because cases are taking so long to be heard. Some defendants spend so long on remand that by the time they are sentenced, they are released from court, having effectively already served their sentence.(有些被告还押候审的时间太长，以至于等到宣判时，他们实际上已经服完了刑期，当庭获释。) Victims will rightly ask whether that is justice, and the public will rightly ask what it means for public safety.
目前大约五分之一的囚犯正在等待审判，这往往是因为案件审理耗时过长。有些被告还押候审的时间太长，以至于等到宣判时，他们实际上已经服完了刑期，当庭获释。受害者有理由质问这算不算正义，公众也有理由质问这对公共安全意味着什么。