There is More Than One Cycle That Needs to Be Broken – Part 2
Cameron’s Prisons Speech (8 February 2016): David Cameron devoted over 5000 words to the subject of prisons in a major speech last week. Prison Governors featured heavily in Cameron’s speech. They are to be given far greater autonomy and power to change regimes within the prisons for which they have responsibility. The Press Release from the Prison Governors Association in immediate response to Cameron’s speech provided a stark reminder of the second cycle which will need
There is more than one cycle that needs to be broken.
Cameron’s Prisons Speech (8 February 2016): David Cameron devoted over 5000 words to the subject of prisons in a major speech earlier this week. It has been heralded by Downing Street as the first speech on prisons by a serving Prime Minister for over 20 years. His advisers and spokesmen appear to have had John Major (Conservative Prime Minister from 1990-1997) in mind as the last PM to have given a flagship prisons speech. There is no comparable speech, Major solely devoted