On the way back from Salisbury Hospital this afternoon, I heard the most inane program on Radio 4, All in the Mind. Sharon, who is obviously very well qualified with presumably nothing less than a full NVQ in gormless therapy and deeply concerned applied niceness, pointed out that many people in British prisons are really quite depressed.
Another of Sharon's astonishingly astute observation was that prisoners had "a lot going on for them" (she repeated this striking expression no less than 3 times). Aside from depression, the things they had mainly got going on for them were severe learning difficulties. So nice of Her Majesty's Prison Service to recruit people with whom these sad wretches evidently feel comfortable.
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