<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/10/jack-straw-and.html">Andrew Neilson: Jack Straw and his crimogenic glasshouse</a>

Monday 27 October 2008 15:19 GMT

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So Jack Straw thinks it is the language that penal reformers use which is the problem. Having sat at the RSA and heard him deliver his chiding speech to a room full of, er, penal reformers, I have a few points to make back.

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