Daily Archives: 8th February 2016

Prisons overhaul to be announced by David Cameron

BBC Plans to overhaul the “failure” of the prison system in England and Wales are to be set out by the prime minister. David Cameron will say high reoffending rates and violence in jails are “scandalous”. A pilot scheme will see six governors given autonomy over how prisons spend their budgets and which education services…

Why is it that crime falls, yet we imprison more people than ever?

The Independent Prison is probably the single biggest indictment of state failure yet we are still waiting for the “rehabilitation revolution” promised when the Tories took power in 2010 For many years ministers privately complained that even the most carefully chosen chief inspector of prisons rapidly went “native”, undermining their tough stances by bleating on about…