Host Aggie Chambre explores the disaster in Britain’s jail system and asks what might be performed to repair it.
She goes inside a jail riddled with medication and violence, and hears from the governor and from long-serving inmates about what’s actually occurring.
Justice Secretary Alex Chalk units out his plan to overtake the sector, and why he believes a part of the reply is to cease handing out jail phrases for much less critical crimes.
Former Tory chief Michael Howard relives his well-known “jail works” speech of 1993 and considers whether or not he would make the identical speech once more right now.
Aggie meets Charlie Taylor, Britain’s chief inspector of prisons. He tells her of the harrowing scenes he has witnessed in prisons across the U.Ok. this previous yr.
And the Howard League’s Andrea Coomber, a jail reform campaigner, requires politicians to be courageous in explaining to the general public that jail doesn’t work the best way they suppose it does.