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That is scary! Well, we've recently got a new prisons minister, this might actually motivate me to write to them about this.
by xnorswap 2y ago
That is scary! Well, we've recently got a new prisons minister, this might actually motivate me to write to them about this.
- n4r9 2y agoI looked them up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Timpson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Timpson Woah. It's actually the MD of Timpson, whom Starmer has parachuted into the role along with a peerage. So an unelected Minister, but apparently he's very into prison reform, so there's that.
- xnorswap 2y agoIndeed, Timpson's are a leading employer of people who have served their sentence: > The company is well known for its policy of employing ex-convicts, who make up over 10% of its workforce