5 Live Investigates - Reoffending; unadopted roads

Is the system put in place to manage dangerous offenders when they're released from prison keeping people safe? 5 live Investigates asks why more murderers and rapists are committing further offences when freed from jail.

Also, the homeowners living without streetlights and proper pavements because their housebuilder has left the work unfinished. Could more be done to protect them when developments go wrong?

Published on Sunday, 25th October 2015.

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