Sweeping changes will also include ranking jails in league tables and improving quality of education for prisonersDavid Cameron will reveal plans for wholesale changes to the prison system including giving more power to prison governors and ranking the 121 jails in England and Wales in league tables.
In a speech in London on Monday he will lay out a strategy to give governors “full autonomy” over how they run their prisons and spend their budgets, with six jails set to gain “reform prison” status by the finish of 2016 and half of all prisons set to acquire those freedoms by 2020.
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Source: theguardian.com