The drip, drip, drop of lefty bias

Listening to the Today programme is getting harder and harder as the drip, drip, drip of lefty liberal bias is so insistent. One case this morning was the piece billed as

"Prison governors are urging ministers to scrap prison sentences of less than a year, to ease overcrowding. The Prison Governors Association (PGA) is to debate the idea at its annual conference. Home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw, and the President of the PGA, Paul Tidball, discuss the possible reforms."

The statistic that kept being pushed was that 60% of those who serve prison sentences go on to re-offend, so the conclusion was to cancel all prison sentences of less than 12 months. Of course the question not asked, as it might not be helpful, was what percentage of convicted criminals serving "community sentences" re-offend. Two other questions would be what percentage of convicted criminals serving community sentences re-offend whilst serving their sentence? I am pretty sure this figure would be higher than the re-offending figure for jailed criminals.