Burnham's Prison Reforms: A Glimmer of Hope in a System Overdue for Change Andy Burnham's recent pronouncements on prison reform have sent shockwaves through the British justice system, but it remains to be seen whether this is more than just a public relations stunt.
His proposal to free up space in the prison system and exclude PC Andrew Harper's killers from early release is a long overdue recognition of the failures of the current system.
The UK's prison population has been plagued by overcrowding and inefficiency, with over 2,000 prisoners serving indeterminate IPP sentences.