Could They Reopen The Dartmoor Quarry?

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The Justice Secretary, Ken Clarke, said yesterday that prisoners should no longer live a life of ‘enforced, bored idleness’ and that his aim is to make prisons ‘tougher places of hard work and reform for the criminals who should be locked up’ and ‘make community sentences that really are tougher and more effective for those who don't need to be locked up’.

Doubtless, all the bleeding hearts will now emerge to say how Dickensian these proposals are and how they offend against prisoners’ human rights.

But so far as I am concerned, Mr Clarke is spot on. Bring back oakum picking is what I say!
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What A Great Idea

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Inmates of prisons in Madhya Pradesh, in central India, can gain earlier releases if they agree to undergo a three-month course in yoga, the art of exercise and meditation.

Indian prison authorities believe that yoga will not only improve inmates’ fitness and physical and mental discipline, but make them calmer, less violent and more positive when they are finally released.

What a great idea! The government wants to have less prisoners in British jails so, perhaps, courses in yoga might help ease the problem.
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