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Money earmarked for prisons should instead be focused on brain injury sufferers, it has been claimed.

At least four in every five prisoners in jails in the Canadian province of British Columbia has suffered a brain injury, making rehabilitation services a better alternative to prison, according to Geoff Sing, manager at the Cridge Centre for the Family Brain Injury Program.

Writing in the Times Colonist, he claims that not investing in these sorts of programmes can lead to people making poor choices that end in addiction and crime because of cognitive and behavioural changes.

Mr Sing points out that the cost of housing people in prisons could be better spent on preventing them ending up there in the first place.

"Through this investment in terms rehabilitation, community support and fulfilling life-skills training, brain injury survivors will have the opportunity to be positive contributors to our society," he added.

His comments come as it emerges that more soldiers are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan having suffered a traumatic brain injury.

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