HOWTO DRAW OUR WAY OUT OF JAIL

摘要

The headline in my copy ofThe Times was clear and decisive: "Clarke to shut six prisons". This was followed by the "revelation" that the new chief inspector of prisons was delivering a strong indictment of prison life by declaring some of it "hellish" with "filthy conditions" and "filthy cells". This was immediately followed by a response from Jack Straw who commented: "It is not prison services that fail when prisoners reoffend -it is the offender."