Secure hospitals are not penal institutions

High-security hospitals such as Broadmoor, above, are not prisons, and it is unhelpful to talk of ‘serving a sentence’ in one, says Mat Kinton.While unpacking the myth of the she-devil (The long read, 2 October), Helena Kennedy unfortunately reiterates a different myth.It is incorrect to say that Ian Brady “served his sentence in a penal institution for the insane until his death”.