Seb Klier

Seb Klier is the Policy and Communications Officer at the Prisoners' Education Trust, a national charity supporting education within prison and advocating better access to learning, skills and vocatio

Working prisons? Or prisons that work

Keeping people locked up is costly and ineffective, the Coalition government said of the British prison system when it came to power in June 2010. Now the talk is of giving prisoners 40-hour working weeks. So what happened to those early promises of putting rehabilitation first, asks Seb Klier

By Seb Klier

/ 19 Mar 2012