What will fix Britain’s prisons?
Episode 19 min 5s

What will fix Britain’s prisons?

HMP Bedford was issued with an urgent notification yesterday, meaning it must immediately make reforms to improve. It’s the fifth prison to receive such a notification this year. What’s going wrong in Britain’s prisons, and what will fix them?

Max Jeffery speaks to former prison governor Ian Acheson and former prisoner David Shipley.

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