Editorial: English and Welsh prisons are disastrously overcrowded, and new research suggests privatisation may be making a bad situation worse
It should not be possible to make profits out of prisons. The power to lock people up, depriving them of their liberty and separating them from their families, is a responsibility that should be the preserve of the state. Yet a pro-market ideology has seen private companies become responsible for about one in seven of the UK’s 92,000 prisoners – a proportion second only to Australia.
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