What's In The Government's Plan To Fix Prisons?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re looking at what the government is doing to deal with overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales.

It’s responding to an independent report into the issue by former justice secretary, David Gauke, who’s on the podcast.

We’re also looking at a pay rise for the public sector, with teachers and doctors getting 4%. Health editor Hugh Pym and education editor Branwen Jeffreys talk it through.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, this government's earned a bit of a reputation for setting up reviews into complicated things.
0:10.9	We've had, but not seen yet, the defence review, the curriculum review, the review of right to buy,
0:16.3	the review of the pension system, the review of adult social care and also aspects of the grooming gangs,
0:22.0	which are being done by the same person, but we've finally got the fruits of one of them today.
0:27.0	It's the review into sentencing policy, and it was carried out by the former Justice Secretary
0:32.4	David Gock, and today the government published the review and said they were signing up to pretty
0:37.2	much everything that it recommended.
0:39.3	So what's going on and what will change in our prisons?
0:42.8	We will discuss that on this episode of Newscast.
0:45.8	Newscast from the BBC.
0:48.2	He has just compared me to the fat controller.
0:51.2	Did I say that?
0:52.6	I can't believe I said that.
0:54.0	Next Wednesday? This is R for the benefit of Earth. I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next Wednesday.
0:55.0	This is R for the benefit of Earth.
0:57.0	I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fan.
1:00.0	I don't think I'm being rude.
1:01.0	I like landscapes.
1:02.0	Take me down to Downey Street.
1:04.0	Let's go have a tour.
1:06.0	Blimey.
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