As a prisoner, I know Bishop Moth is right
SIR – I write to offer my gratitude to Bishop Richard Moth for highlighting the desperate fact that “Britain is failing prisoners” (February 24). Indeed, levels of suicide, self-harm and difficulties around issues of mental health are at a record high, and this situation is deplorable in any civilised society and needs the urgent attention of Government.
Speaking for myself, I know why I was sent to prison. I know that I deserve a prison sentence; I believe that many prisoners would say the same. What prisoners do not deserve is to be dumped within a system awash with drugs, where threats and actual violence are a daily occurrence, suicide levels are an obscene reality, and prison officers are stretched physically and mentally to breaking point.
