International Law

Prison reformers condemn new 'Titan' jails as a 'gigantic mistake'

By John Hirst

If this was a listening government, instead of having a consultation process which just goes through the motions because a decision has already been reached to go ahead with Titan Prisons, perhaps we could avoid a Titanic mistake. It was because I was in a smaller, more manageable unit, that reform was allowed to take place. Human warehouses are not the answer. These just lead to bigger problems. I urge the government to have a rethink and scrap this idea before it is too late. An Alcatraz-style prison was a bad idea in the 1960s, its still a bad idea today.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).