My Review from the Daily Mail of Alex South's Impressive Book on Her Years as a Prison Officer.

Most people have pretty strong feelings about what prisons should be like. Hardly anyone knows what they are like. Half the population is convinced they are holiday camps where unrepentant villains feast on smuggled fillet steaks. The other half thinks they are unjust hellholes whose inmates should for the most part be let out. Neither of these beliefs is correct. The truth is in some ways quite a lot worse. The miserable result of this empty controversy is that nothing intelligent is ever done ...