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Secondly, what this does, in effect, is extend the sentence that has been given to somebody since the offender can be publicly branded long after the sentence. It is a form of stigmatisation, which is the biggest barrier to being able to move on after completing a sentence. Why do I say that? In the past we talked about publishing a photograph—we all remember the phrase that today’s newspaper headlines are tomorrow’s fish and chip wrappers. That is no longer true: when photographs are placed on social media, on the internet, they are there for eternity, so there can be real problems of stigmatisation for the individual.