But there’s another reason politicians are interested in them: the overcrowding at jails in England and Wales, filled to capacity with 88,000 inmates. To help solve that crisis, the last Conservative ...
John* is in prison. Yet five days a week, he’s allowed out. He has a job, working in a warehouse a few miles away. He can even stay at home sometimes. He’s an inmate at HMP Hatfield, an open prison ...