Prisons crisis will test Labour’s mettle | Letters

Prof Rod Morgan says the last thing we should be doing is expanding the prison system as the government intends to doNothing will better test the honesty and mettle of this government than the prisons crisis (Editorial, 12 December). Administrations of left and right have engaged in penal populism to capture the high “law and order” electoral ground since the 1990s. The result has been the steady lengthening of prison sentences such that we now have the longest in western Europe and