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Why Prisons Fail

Will Self sees an urgent need to reform the prison system and deplores what he sees as a lack of political will to tackle its present failings.

Will Self sees an urgent need to reform the prison system and deplores what he sees as a lack of political will to tackle its present failings. "Not only does prison, for the vast majority of those who endure it not work - either as punishment or as rehabilitation - but there is no escaping the conclusion that it functions as a stimulant to crime, rather than its bromide".

Producer: Sheila Cook.

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Sun 9 Oct 2011 08:50

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  • Fri 7 Oct 2011 20:50
  • Sun 9 Oct 2011 08:50

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