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What are we feeding prisoners?
In a shocking decline since the 1960s when those inside would get three square meals, we are now seeing privatised services supply starvation rations, writes EUGENIA RUSSELL

INSTITUTIONAL food is very telling about our society.

The opening of an article in the Guardian by Frances Crook, the outgoing chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform (The reform of prisons has been my life’s work, but they are still utterly broken, August 10 2021), is stark and truly heart-breaking: “Nobody really cares about prisons.”

She declares the state of our prison system as her “most bitter regret” in an article that will be an eye-opener for a lot of people.

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