The suggestions include replicating private industry conditions as closely as possible within the prison, training prison staff to manage the specific training and mentorship needs of offenders, and providing comprehensive pre-release services for inmates.
In the latter case, they were the result of a situation built and shaped by Zimbardo himself -- he designed the prison, trained the guards, and sat idly by for six days as his prison turned into a madhouse.
Although the Prisons Minister is cautious about timescales, there are indications that a breakthrough may not be far off; in the meantime it is understood some prisons are training drug dogs to sniff out legal highs.
Unfortunately, though, no matter how rich or powerful we are, we can't fix miserable childhoods by creating more prisons or training more therapists and social workers.
In 2013 Samaritans reached more than 60,000 schoolchildren and 11,000 university students, while in prisons 660 trained prisoner volunteers lent a patient ear.
The 'memorandum of understanding' – signed in September 2014 – tied the two countries into cooperating on judicial matters and Downing Street confirmed that the cooperation continues, despite Mr Gove cancelling the Government's £6m prison training contract with Saudi Arabia last October.
These characters have been defined in the broadest of strokes so even something as trivial as Pope revealing his prison training in the culinary arts was more than welcome – "Paprika?
In Saudi Arabia, whether it was the UK's proposed prison training contract – cancelled only after overwhelming pressure – or the timid Foreign Office response to the mass executions carried out in the kingdom in January, the Tory government treats Riyadh's human rights record as an inconvenient embarrassment, rather than a cause of serious concern.
Following concerns from opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn over Ali al-Nimr's situation, the government pulled out of bidding for a prison training contract worth £5.9m On 20 October the UK foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, told the Commons: "I do not expect Mr Al-Nimr to be executed".
