The flipchart(挂图；活动挂图) in the corner of the staff meeting room, deep inside a prison in the south-east of England, tells its own story(本身就很说明问题) about what our overcrowded(过度拥挤的) jails are having to deal with, day in day out. Under the heading “Challenges”, it lists gangs, the destruction of cells, prisoners exploiting(利用；剥削) each other and complex behaviours.
在英格兰东南部一座监狱深处的员工会议室角落里，一块挂图本身就说明了我们人满为患的监狱日复一日不得不面对的问题。在“挑战”这一标题下，它列出了帮派、破坏牢房、囚犯互相利用以及复杂行为等条目。
Committed, hard-working staff talk about the high levels of psychosis(精神病；精神错乱), often combined with drug abuse(药物滥用). They provide examples of people actually committing crimes to go back into jail to get some respite(喘息；暂时缓解) from their chaotic(混乱的), dysfunctional(功能失调的) lives.
尽职尽责、辛勤工作的员工谈到严重的精神病问题，往往还伴有药物滥用。他们举例说，有人为了回到监狱、从混乱不堪的生活中获得喘息，竟然故意犯罪。
To tackle(应对；处理) the current prisons crisis in England and Wales, planned changes to sentencing(量刑；判决) will see almost 2,000 people released early from Thursday and over the following month. It is the first tranche(一批；一期款项) of the estimated 5,000 releases that will take place in phases(分阶段地) over the coming year.
为应对英格兰和威尔士当前的监狱危机，计划中的量刑改革将使近2000人从周四起及随后一个月内提前获释。这是预计5000人释放计划的第一批，将在未来一年内分阶段进行。