Tom Pride exposes a particularly nasty example of the Cameron government being unable to face reality…
(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
Well, this is as shocking as it looks.
The Howard League for Penal Reform has famously been campaigning for the improvement of criminal justice policy in the UK for over 140 years.
But now the Cameron/Clegg government has effectively banned the charity from visiting privatised prisons Birmingham and Oakwood, which are now run by G4S:
The author of the shocking letter – Ian Blakeman – was appointed head of the National Offender Management Service by the Cameron/Clegg government because of his enthusiastic support for the coalition’s policy of privatising prisons.
And Blakeman makes it clear in his letter to Francis Crook – the CEO of the Howard League – that it is her criticisms of privatised prisons which is the reason for the ban.
To be clear, it was G4S itself which invited the Howard League to visit their prisons, and they have made it clear they are still willing to allow the…
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