Why are prisoners rioting? Serial ministerial incompetence | Tom Gash

Our justice system is collapsing because key issues were never addressed by Chris Grayling and Michael Gove when they had the chanceToday is the second day of rioting at the Mount prison, and “disturbances” across the prison system in England and Wales are becoming increasingly frequent. Levels of violence and self-harm in our prisons are the highest they’ve been in decades. The president of the Prison Governors Association, Andrea Albutt, was right to express “grave conc