What our prison population says about our society | Letters

Prisons are now the largest provider of residential care for elderly men. What does that say about us? Guardian readers respondThe fact that prisons are now the largest provider of residential care for elderly men in the UK is just one more sign of the degraded “society” we live in (Buried alive: the old men stuck in Britain’s prisons, 20 June). But what is to be done? There is no chance of politicians taking meaningful action, in thrall as they are to the whims of a vocal