Introduced by David Dimbleby The Crisis Inside
Britain's prison population has reached a new peak at over 42,000. Tom Mangold has been to five major prisons to talk to staff and prisoners about life inside and the strains on the system.
Expenditure cuts have stopped rebuilding and affected prison routine. Governors warn that facilities are overstretched; prison officers complain that their job has been reduced to locking and unlocking; prisoners are angry about conditions.
' I expected to come to prison and do time -but not to be caged up like this.'
After the Hull riot, is more trouble inevitable?
Producer JOHN PENYCATE
Assistant editor DAVID HARRISON
Editor PETER PAGNAMENTA. Preview: p 15