If the prize for
the most efficient propaganda machine in Whitehall were measured by the number
of lines published of (dis)information, “news” releases and “initiatives” those
responsible at Petty France London SW1 would surely win. Now we are informed
that those guilty of rebellious behaviour in prisons (now without the help of legal aid to argue their case) are to be subject to
increased severity in punishments notwithstanding the sacking of about a third of prison officers
and the replacement of some of these by people of little experience and the
consequent increase in the time prisoners are kept confined to their
cells. Enquiries are currently being
carried out concerning the increased number of prison suicides and the
efficiency or lack thereof at privately run penal establishments. The policies
of this so called justice administration are passing from the merely bizarre
and economising to the demonic. Judges,
lawyers, probation service, prison service and even magistrates have expressed
their opposition to Grayling who continues before our almost incomprehensible unbelieving eyes to take our once admirable
justice system into the abyss from which there is no recovery in sight.
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