Fixing prison overcrowding may not be a vote-winner in the cost of living crisis but we’ll count the cost if we don’t

With the prison system under strain, low-risk offenders could be serving time working in Iceland instead of sitting in a cell – but not everyone’s convinced it’s a good idea. So we ask…

Over her decade as a prison officer, Alex South worked with some extraordinary colleagues, and saw what prisons at their best are like. She also saw the bad side – illicit affairs, violence, squalid conditions – getting gradually worse

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