Justice system needs joined-up thinking | Letters

Andrea Albutt, the president of the Prison Governors Association, is correct to say that separating policy and operational control has been problematic (Prisons in crisis due to ‘perverse’ government overhaul, 2 August).In 1978, the prison system experienced a profound crisis, despite high staff numbers with little binary divide between policy and operations.It rumbled on through the 1980s before exploding at Strangeways in 1990.