Jailhouselawyer's Blog

It is not April Fools Day, nonetheless, the Grauniad has an article written by Alan Travis, headlined "Public to be sold shares in new prisons", and subheaded "Buy-to-let scheme planned to fund building of 8,000 new jail places". According to Phil Wheatley, Director General of H.M. Prison Service, "Nonsense". And, he should know. He added, "You shouldn't believe everything you read in the newspapers". I don't. For example, it is claimed that Alan Travis is "home affairs editor". There are fairies at the bottom of my garden...