Sadiq Khan MP, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary, responding to the Justice Select Committee’s report on prisons, said:

“Independent evidence is stacking up concerning the prisons crisis caused by the policies of David Cameron’s Government.
“Prison should be about punishment and reform if reoffending rates are to be cut and the public kept safe.

“Instead, this Government’s policies have seen jails turn into dens of violence where inmates are idling away their time in their cells instead of being on courses or working.
“This is light years away from the rehabilitation revolution ministers promised us back in 2010.”