When Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce were sentenced to imprisonment the other day, shockwaves ricocheted through the media establishment. Steve Richards, a political writer at the Independent, was on the frontline of reaction, describing the sentences as “crazy”. Within days, we were hearing sob stories about the pains of fame when banged up at Her […]
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Privatised probation, legal aid cuts and now titan jails
Jan 21st, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Today justice secretary Chris Grayling completes this week’s hatrick of wrong-headed decisions that will set back the justice system for years. First he announced that the MoJ was beginning feasibility work on building a new prison that would hold more than 2,000 prisoners. Jack Straw had the same idea in 2009, but rapidly dropped it […]
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Tories point the way to in-sourcing!
Nov 18th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.A curious thing happened before I wrote this article yesterday. The Tory government decided to force the hand-back of the running of a privatised prison to the public sector next year. It is Wolds prison in Yorkshire, and admittedly it is a prison run by G4S, so maybe this can be written off as belated […]
