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Tag Archives: Prisons
Peter Hitchens on the “father figures” and “agony aunts” now required for Britain’s prisons
Pasted up in an Oxfordshire byway, I found extraordinary proof of what most of us have long suspected and what politicians always try to deny (above). We are now so soft on wrong-doing that the wicked must be laughing at … Continue reading
Posted in Peter Hitchens, Popular Culture, Society, Secularism
Tagged Great Britain, Prison Officers, Prisons, United Kingdom
