The last of four programmes.
The Leyhill Debate from Leyhill
Open Prison in Gloucestershire, where the minister responsible for prisons, prison reformers, prison officials and inmates considers the proposition that: 'Our present prison system cannot rehabilitate offenders.'
Proposing:
Vivien Stern (Director, National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders) and Dr Rod Morgan
(Reader in Criminology, Bristol University). Opposing:
David Mellor , QC. mp (Minister of State at the Home Office) and Ian Dunbar
(Director of HM Prisons, South West Region). Chairman
Brian Redhead. Producer
LAWRENCE SIMANOWITZ Editor MARGARET HILL