http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article307417.ece
"Britain's prison service has been seriously overstretched for years. Now it is at breaking point. Last week, the number of people behind bars reached 77,000. And as the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers, makes clear in The Independent today, this is making it impossible for our prisons to operate in an efficient or a humane fashion. "
