In his prisons speech, the prime minister, said it was worth exploring the free school process to turn young offender institutions into high quality schools.
Gove's prisons speech came in a week in which the chief inspector of prisons has described penal conditions in England and Wales as the worst for a decade and was notable for its complete change of tone from his predecessor, Chris Grayling, who repeatedly insisted there was no crisis in the prisons.
In his prisons speech, Cameron broke new ground by declaring that with the record 85,000 prison population in England and Wales "simply warehousing ever more prisoners is simply not financially sustainable, nor is it necessarily the most cost effective way of cutting crime".
But, for me, to find the first black President — a former community organizer who has ventured more daringly outside the Oval Office (with a stop at a prison, a speech at a mosque, an impending visit to Cuba) than any other modern President — teaching at Columbia (or any school like it) would be a disappointment.
TWO thoughts on today's row over Ken Clarke's prison-reform speech.
Now a special state security court has sentenced Mr Erbakan to a year in prison for a speech he made six years ago in the largely Kurdish province of Bingol.
But because we still believe in the freedom of speech, prison is not, and must never be, one of those punishments.
As European officials renewed their calls on Turkey to become more democratic, a court today sentenced former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan to one year in prison for a speech he gave in 1994.
Though Valle and Elonis faced different charges, the issues in the two cases are broadly similar: If someone isn't going to act out the fantasies he talks about online – and there's no physical evidence the Cannibal Cop was going to turn into an actual cannibal – then what we're talking about is sending someone to prison for objectionable speech.
