Chaplains call for community prisons

PRISON chaplains have called for the creation of smaller, community-based prisons throughout the country to allow a more “humane” regime for prisoners and their families.

In their annual report, chaplains also asked for the new super-prison at Thornton Hall to be postponed to allow for a full debate.

They also say locking up small-time drug dealers, drug addicts and drug mules, as opposed to the big dealers, is not the solution. “If it were, our problems would have been solved by this.”