‘Right-wing’ prison reform

Peter Hitchens draws Mail on Sunday readers to conditions in British prisons that go way beyond legitimate punishment, reaching the depths of inhumanity of prisoners to those they consider more evil than they. It’s heartening to hear a confessedly right-wing commentator adopting a measured and largely non-partisan call for reform. He’s critical of those who otherwise share his political stance but who turn a blind eye to prisoner-on-prisoner brutality. Hitchens’s article is here.

Credit where credit is due - there are very few online readers’ comments to this piece which perhaps says something in itself. Any help towards de-politicising prison reform ought to be affirmed.