The above image shows some responses to the FREE KLUTZ campaign, which urges people to lodge their protest against the excessive 6-month sentence of 17-year-old graffiti artist Jack Jones (KLUTZ) by painting his tag while he's inside. This is not an isolated incident; there are other young people around the country receiving similar sentences as part of the government's new antisocial legislation and this is an attempt to call this legal move into question.

The campaign cites that providing access to avenues of expression is more a solution than incarceration. Manchester has no legal graffiti sites. Condemning our young people to prison has the adverse effect of providing them with an excellent education in many other forms of criminal activity. There are other ways to deal with these problems, such as community service. Having been to prison, the statistics show people are less deterred by the prospect and more readily commit greater offences.

Should we so readily break this powerful psychological barrier at an increasingly young age? By sending young people to prison are we not incubating a bigger problem for ourselves further down the line?

Access or Incarceration?