Alastair Taylor at The Sun - March 26, 2007
A ROW erupted last night after it emerged thousands of prisoners have KEYS to their own cells.
The inmates have been given “privacy locks” to allow them personal space and protect belongings, inquiries by MPs showed.
The scheme — revealed by requests under freedom of information laws — was slammed as “turning prisons into hotels”.
It also emerged that some jails call inmates “residents” or “trainees”.
Figures showed that in Yorkshire alone 5,747 inmates have keys, some at open prisons and young offenders’ centres, but also at standard jails which hold serious criminals.
Prisons Minister Gerry Sutcliffe said it was in the interests of inmates’ rehabilitation and “decency”.
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