The Guardian view on Britain’s prison crisis: quick fixes solve nothing | Editorial

Panorama’s investigation at HMP Northumberland shows a system that is failing to achieve even the most basic of penal goalsEven after the recent prison disturbances in Birmingham and elsewhere, there are some who still pretend that talk of crisis in Britain’s prisons is so much liberal hand-wringing. No one who watching tonight’s BBC Panorama investigation into conditions in one of the country’s biggest jails can possibly take refuge in that lazy claim any longer.The