Radical rethink needed on jails and rehabilitation

Barlinnie prison in Glasgow. ‘For rehabilitation to be effective, people require individualised treatments,’ says David Scott. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The GuardianIt is a sad indictment that our prisons are no longer even “decent”, they struggle to maintain basic standards much less rehabilitate (Prisoners cannot be rehabilitated in jail says ex-prison boss, 29 October).It is an even more damning indictment that child prisons not only fail to rehabilitate, they fail to