Wonder did anyone else catch the BBC coverage of the “Prison overcrowding” issue on Today this morning? It was on at 8.10am. First, the Chief Inspector of Prisons Nick Hardwick was brought on and tossed several softballs, allowing him to parrot the Labour “incompetence” meme. Hardwick is very much on the side of making life as good as possible for the convicts. The sympathy exuded towards the line being retailed by Hardwick by the BBC presenter was palpable. It was interesting to then contrast that with the hostility shown towards Conservative Prison’s minister Chris Grayling, who all in fairness put forward some reasoned points – but the BBC was not having it, of course. At every level, the BBC is doing its’ damnedest to echo the various Labour attack lines on the Coalition.
BBC PORRIDGE…
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I heard this section of the Today programme, and heard exactly what you describe, David. Mishal Husain politely asked questions of Nick Hardwick, and listened to his answers before proceeding to the next soft question, allowing him to express his views without question or challenge, or any real examination of what he was saying.
In complete contrast, Chris Grayling was constantly being over-talked by Mishal Hussein, who was pretty obviously reading through a litany of ‘…. but so-and-so has said this …. do you admit this, etc., etc.’, and clearly paying little or no attention to what Chris Grayling was actually saying in response to her questions.
It was as if she had a list of negative things she just had to get into the interview with the minister, by hook or by crook, no matter what the response.
I guess it’s just little Miss Husain’s usual way of dealing with the government ‘minister du jour’, or more accurately perhaps, any politicians who don’t have a BBC/Leftist mentality.
well, there are there little facts and figures missed out here by these civil liberty appeasers of the most vile people in society who dont deserve to walk the streets of this country and should be locked up in prison for even longer and that is the fact that 12 % of are prison population aprox 13,000 felons who are foriegn prisoners who are clogging up the prison system because they cant be deported and when released end up commiting further serious crimes that lands them back up in prison,so this headline overcrowded prisons is not all what it seems,the only overcrowding in are prisons is of those foreign prisoners who should not be there in the first place to commit crimes and when released should be deported back to there countrys of origin never to return here to commit more crimes.my solution to this so called prison overcrowding,build 10 super max prisons based on the us model where hard time means real hard time where you would not want to return after a dose of horror in these super max hellholes.
Prisons need not cost billions, just concrete, barbed wire, cold water hoses, potatoes, rice and soup.
They don’t need rice and potatoes.