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PRISON: THE FACTS

Strangeways prisonDavid Tinsley is a prison guard at HMP Strangeways, Manchester's high security prison.

Mr Tinsley has spent years in prison, on the right side of the bars. He explains his views on the prison system:

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Take a look at what prisons were like just fourteen years ago and listen to Helen De May explain why Oxford prison was forced to close:

Statistics:

Prison guard David Tinsley says prison cannot be expected to change every offender:

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"Prison is counter productive. We would like to see a cap on prison population, plans to build new prisons stopped, and a reduction in prison population by a third." - Geoff Dobson from the Prison Reform Trust.

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