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No Escape

Richard Weight asks why prison policy is so difficult to unlock and if anyone has the key. Crime isn't getting any worse but the number of inmates has almost doubled over 20 years.

Richard Weight asks why prison policy is so difficult to unlock and whether anyone has the key. Crime is not getting any worse but the number of inmates has almost doubled in the last 20 years. What is more, the majority of prisoners reoffend, with an annual cost to the Treasury of more than 12 billion pounds.

Featuring contributions from:

Jonathan Aitken, former MP and prison inmate
Professor Andrew Coyle, Professor of Prison Studies
Baroness Corston, author of the Corston report on women's prisons
Frances Crook, Director, Howard League for Penal Reform
David Hanson MP, prisons minister
Kenny MacAskill MSP, Scottish cabinet secretary for justice
Ex-offenders from the Open Book Project, Goldsmith's College.

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Mon 1 Jun 2009 20:30
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