The Incentive and Earned Privileges (IEP) system currently employed in UK prisons divides prisoners into four categories: Entry, Basic, Standard, and Enhanced.
The Home Office is currently planning to build two more prisons for women, and to change a third prison, now housing male prisoners, into one for women.
"She wanted me to see the work that was being done to get prisoners into work after prison and to see why it was so important".
"Their latest desperate measure is to stuff more and more prisoners into already dangerously overcrowded prison cells.
After all, nobody was bashing prisoners into walls on a systematic basis in our prisons before "walling" was an approved technique.
Officers round the prisoners into their cells.
That undercuts efforts to reintegrate former prisoners into mainstream society.
So it accepted some prisoners into the West Bank that it had previously rejected.
The human rights provision has turned the political prisoners into bargaining chips.
