Education in prison is key to tackling the crisis | Letters
It would be better for the government to focus on rehabilitative programmes, rather than turning laundry rooms into extra cells, writes Jon Collins. Plus letters from Margaret Carey, Simon Hamilton and David EvansTurning laundry rooms into cells, as the justice secretary has proposed, will put even more pressure on our understaffed and overcrowded prisons (Burnham warned running prison capacity near limit is ‘big risk’, 1 September). This will, in turn, make it even less likely that people in prison will…
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