Thursday, August 24, 2006

Break out / Guardian, 23 Aug 2006

http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,,1855713,00.html
Jon Scott
"I joined the prison service as a trainee governor five years ago full of hope and idealism. This year I quit in despair. Why did every department in every prison every year have to carry out the same risk assessments, instead of headquarters doing this for all 132 prisons? Why was I managing three full-time staff running Pentonville's phone-based visits booking system, when a centralised online/phone alternative for all prisons would surely save millions? Why could I not email interview forms to personnel, which would be just as auditable and would save hours walking down corridors?" [Prison Management]