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Britain’s prisons are at a breaking point

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

From the BBC World Service: Prisons in Britain are grappling with overcrowding, staff shortages and funding cuts — all of which are making a bad situation worse. The government has started to release prisoners early to reduce pressure on the system. Meanwhile, talks are kicking off today between trade unions and Volkswagen on proposed cuts to its workforce in Germany. And, there are calls for more private business investment in India.

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive

0:03.4

It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist, I was flying for the Navy.

0:09.6

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

0:14.4

It was the cold war and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.

0:18.6

Today though, there's another threat out there, climate change.

0:22.6

This could be the warmest year on record.

0:24.6

Climate change is here.

0:25.7

Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

0:29.5

And while the threat seems new, the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.

0:35.9

I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.

0:44.7

This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis

0:47.5

to see how the military is preparing for the threat.

0:51.0

Listen to how we survive, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:54.0

So Britain decided to take people out of its prisons instead of putting more money into them.

1:01.0

Good morning. This is the Marketplace Morning Report and we are live

1:04.8

from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna Byrne. Britain's prisons are at breaking point

1:10.0

with overcrowding staff shortages and funding cuts making the situation worse.

1:15.2

The prison population has hit a record high. The government's early release schemes are being used

1:20.8

as a quick fix, but with limited resources, critics say more needs to be done.

1:27.6

Just north of central London behind high brick walls, there's a whitewash building with bars on its windows and it's one of

1:34.7

Britain's most dangerous jails. Pentonville prison is also one of the most

1:39.4

crowded and costs around 69 million dollars a year to operate with four inmates to one

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