England and Wales’s prisons are overcrowded, drug-infested and barbaric. Labour has halted a once-in-a-generation effort to change that sorry state Andy Burnham’s “pausing” of the Starmer government’s prisoner release scheme and the resignation of its architect, James Timpson , are disasters. T...

Source: [Guardian Politics](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/31/will-burnham-fix-prisons-rightwing-populism-timpson)

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