What will fix Britain’s prisons?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Max Jeffery speaks to former prison governor Ian Acheson and former prisoner David Shipley.
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| 0:15.4 | Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots, |
| 0:21.4 | the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm Max Jeffrey and I'm joined by Ian H.S. |
| 0:27.2 | And David Shipley. |
| 0:28.6 | Ian H.S. was a former governor at Wandsworth Prison and David was a prisoner at Wandsworth. |
| 0:35.0 | Guys were you there at separate times? |
| 0:37.2 | I don't think we overlapped it. |
| 0:39.0 | I was there at 2020 so I think you were long gone by then, where do you in? |
| 0:42.8 | I was long gone and doing other more interesting things. |
| 0:46.0 | And we're here to talk about a new urgent notification that's been issued to Bedford prison. |
| 0:51.0 | It was issued yesterday and the report cited higher levels of |
| 0:54.3 | violence at Bedford Prison than any other prison in the country. It was ranked |
| 0:59.4 | poor on safety, respect, purposeful activity, preparation for release. |
| 1:04.7 | Ian, what did you make of the urgent notification and can you tell us what an |
| 1:08.6 | notification actually means as well? |
| 1:10.8 | Sure. |
| 1:11.8 | The urgent notification was issued yesterday by the chief inspector of prisons, who's the only person |
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