PRT comment: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons’ annual report 2020-21
Commenting on
the findings of today’s (20 July) Annual Report by HM Chief Inspector of
Prisons, Peter Dawson,
director of the Prison Reform Trust said:
“The Chief
Inspector could not put it any plainer—locking prisoners in their cells all day
solves nothing. The future in our prisons must be built on a foundation of good
staff building good relationships with the people in their care. That can’t be
delivered in an overcrowded, under-resourced system. The government’s approach
to sentencing, driven by politics not evidence, makes that fundamental problem
worse, not better.”
Commenting on
the findings of today’s (20 July) Annual Report by HM Chief Inspector of
Prisons, Peter Dawson,
director of the Prison Reform Trust said:
“The Chief
Inspector could not put it any plainer—locking prisoners in their cells all day
solves nothing. The future in our prisons must be built on a foundation of good
staff building good relationships with the people in their care. That can’t be
delivered in an overcrowded, under-resourced system. The government’s approach
to sentencing, driven by politics not evidence, makes that fundamental problem
worse, not better.”
