Lamentable Tory rhetoric on prisons

A recent report said that HMP Liverpool (pictured) had the ‘worst conditions inspectors have seen’.The justice secretary David Gauke offers up more repackaging of stale news with his proposed “plan to recategorise prisoners into higher-security prisons based on their continuing risk of criminality in jail” (Tougher jails for more than 6,000 prisoners with crime gang links, 6 March).Security categorisation is already determined by assessment of the risks posed by a pr