The prison system is in crisis. It has been seriously that way for at least the last ten years or more. Since New Labour came to power in 1997 and for some years before that not a single politician has demonstrated one shred of political will to make the sytem genuinely more effective, which in part has led to the failures culminating in Daniel Sonnex being free to take part in the murders of French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez. So long as we remain complacent about our prison system and continue to allow politicians to get away with their nonsensical prison rhetoric the danger of similiar horrors occurring in the future will increase.