Building the new prisons alongside military bases would provide opportunities.
He said Britain should leave the EU if Britain’s relationship with it did not change. And since Cameron’s negotiation hasn’t changed that relationship, he is being true to his word.
Prisons, inequality, One Nation… the Prime Minister is continuing from where he started in last year’s conference speech.
A stress on character is at the heart of the reforms which Cameron described yesterday and which Gove is implementing.
The first speech by a Prime Minister in over 20 years dedicated solely to prisons sets out the Government’s reform agenda.
Gove’s proposals are a welcome first step, but a truly radical programme must have a much broader scope than jails alone.
Gove’s drive for better treatment and rehabilitation offers another opportunity for radical Conservative reform.
Though the news makes it even less likely that Britain will quit the ECHR – not that such a move is on the cards anyway.
The Justice Secretary is going back on the policies introduced by his predecessor – and, indeed, on years of lazy political orthodoxy.
Extremism, drugs, bureaucracy: addressing these will take time. Ensuring hygiene and cleanliness should not.
He is seeking as radical a change in prisoner rehabilitation as he delivered in education.
The Justice Secretary’s victory on the misguided prison deal shows that his opposition to tyranny persists.
The final part of our families policy series focuses on prisons and rehabilitation: more children are affected by parental imprisonment than by divorce.
The Justice Secretary’s course in his new post is driven by politics as well as principle – that’s to say, by the need to take others with him on prison and human rights reform.
We still haven’t cracked effective rehabilitation either in the community or behind bars. If the Government makes the latter more effective, we’ll imprison more people.