Guardian and Daily Mail in slow day for news so lets drag out another prisoner non-news story...

I cannot believe what I am reading "Minister defends policy of giving prisoners cell keys". There are somethings I believe that the Prisons Minister should be trying to defend, for example, the unlawful overcrowding policy. However, there is nothing to defend in a policy of allowing prisoners to have privy keys (separate to the security keys) to their cells. I am aware that this has been going on since at least the late 1970s early 1980s. Hardly news is it? As for the Daily Mail claiming that this is another example of the absurdity of the Human Rights Act. It's got sweet FA to do with the HRA. It benefits prisoners in that they can securely lock their possessions away from other prisoners, and allows them access without having to bother a prison officer to keep locking and unlocking cell doors.