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Chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick said: "Despite some positive features, Doncaster was a prison with much that had to be put right, some of it urgently.

A relaxation of asphyxiating austerity, relative economic stability and signs that the country was actually starting to put right some of the problems that brought it to the brink would start to win public opinion around.

However, the British government says it will not prosecute Aamer, and William Hague, the foreign secretary, has said that the UK government is pressing for his return "to put right some of the damage caused to Britain's moral authority by allegations of complicity in torture and in rendition leading to torture".

So these unsparing public accounts of dying are perhaps best read as a tentative kind of prayer for the godless: a lesson in being able when the time eventually comes to leave our children with grace, put right some wrongs, and to accept what we cannot change.

The foreign secretary, William Hague, repeated on 31 March that he was pressing the US to return Aamer "to put right some of the damage caused to Britain's moral authority by allegations of complicity in torture and in rendition leading to torture".

Nick Hardwick, chief inspector of prisons, said: "Despite some positive features, Doncaster was a prison with much that had to be put right, some of it urgently".

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Since his release Rowe has dedicated himself to putting right some of his past wrongs.

There was a case for putting right some of the wrong done in the privatisations of the 1990s that created the oligarchs, for instance by imposing a windfall tax on them and their companies.

Dr Rex Strong, head of nuclear safety at Sellafield, said: "The organisation is now focusing on putting right some underinvestments of the past in order to support the hazard and waste reduction mission that the site has".

All she wants is "everything put right and some accountability".

"There is clearly something that has gone very wrong in the way parts of the press deal with individuals who don't seek celebrity and I hope that can put right by some of the recommendations of this inquiry," he said.

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