Tackling prison overcrowding

Title

Tackling prison overcrowding

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

3 Dec 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:03:10

Description

Report on measures being taken to tackle overcrowding in British gaols. With comment from Secretary of Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP), Jim Cogan; and Prison Officers Association District Secretary, Peter Hancock(?). Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Jim Cogan; Peter Hancock(?)

Keywords

Prisons; Prison reform; Rights of prisoners; Penal sanctions; Prisoners; Sentencing policy

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