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Why Prisons Fail
Will Self sees an urgent need to reform the prison system and deplores what he sees as a lack of political will to tackle its present failings.
Will Self sees an urgent need to reform the prison system and deplores what he sees as a lack of political will to tackle its present failings. "Not only does prison, for the vast majority of those who endure it not work - either as punishment or as rehabilitation - but there is no escaping the conclusion that it functions as a stimulant to crime, rather than its bromide".
Producer: Sheila Cook.
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