The Economist (US), March 16th, 1991
FORTUNATELY, Lord Longford is a humble man - so humble that in this book he cheerfully qoutes one prisoner saying to another: "You must have done something pretty bad for that old nutter to come to see you." He first started visiting prisoners 55 years ago; but he has to accept the humbling truth that last year's riots at Strangeways and other notorious jails have done far more for the cause of penal reform in Britain than all his years of highly-publicised campaigning.
Ideas previously dismissed as wildly permissive have suddenly come into the mainstream. Lord Justice Woolf, after a ten-mo...
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