We simply send too many people to prison for too long in the first place. Theres always votes in "lock them up and throw away the key" but no votes in building the facilities to do so, even… (View Post)

I know that you are being tongue in cheek, but that looks like excellent policing to me. Protest and counter protest took place, the football match took place. Lots of shouting but little real violen… (View Post)

Years ago they would be in a secure psychiatric unit. That system had its own problems with institutionalisation and institutional abuse of course. (View Post)

Because prisons are overcrowded, guards are undertrained with few entry requirements snd administrative systems archaic. We have neglected our prisons as much as anywhere else in the public estate so… (View Post)

That is a great piece of journalism. (View Post)