Why Can't Politicians Fix Our Prisons?

<p>The crisis facing prisons in England and Wales is nothing new - in fact, governments of every stripe have been trying to fix it for decades. Patrick Maguire asks why they've failed, and what can be done to improve criminal justice in the future.</p><br><p>Plus Manveen Rana and Matthew Bell discuss&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/united-nations-biased-un-israel-6p7xzdjtv" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Israel's fallout with the United Nations</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ai-could-help-terrorists-develop-bioweapons-report-warns-j7zkpbqn9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">whether we should be scared of the AI future&nbsp;</a>and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rachel-reeves-book-denies-plagiarism-shadow-chancellor-b3km0kgh8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rachel Reeves plagiarising Wikipedia in her new book.</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>