6. Ian Acheson at the Bridport Literary Festival (Monday 04 November 10.30am)

Description

SCREWED

Britain’s Prison Crisis and How to Escape It

Ian Acheson has served for twenty years as both an officer and Prison Governor.  In 2015, the then Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove, asked him to lead an independent review of prison extremism which laid bare a corporate culture of ineptitude, secrecy and arrogance that threatened national security. Nothing has changed

Screwed is the inside story of the collapse of His Majesty’s Prison Service told from the front line.  This hard hitting account looks at the politics and the operational decisions that have driven our prison to rock bottom, where extreme violence, indolence and victimisation are normalised.  Acheson also outlines how a new corporate culture and mission can achieve a much needed revolution in the way the service is run.

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