Jails Full? Well we'll let them go then...

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6299727.stm

A man who downloaded child pornography to his computer has avoided jail after the home secretary asked judges to limit prison terms due to overcrowding.

I'm sorry but WTF?????? Surely if prisons are so full, crime isn't going down.
Two other articles 1 and 2 also seem to show that craime is getting worse, but whats the odds that when the government "statistics" some out, it'll show that its decreasing.