7. 7. Plaid Cymru Debate: Superprisons

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:58 pm on 20 September 2017.

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Photo of Adam Price Adam Price Plaid Cymru 5:58, 20 September 2017

We’ve all seen the economic and social pain that Port Talbot has suffered of late. I have to say that turning Wales’s industrial heartland into an industrial-sized penal colony is not the solution to years of neglect that that community has suffered. I want to concentrate in my remarks on the economic dimension, but I would say to the Conservative Member: look, it’s not humane to dragoon people—prisoners—and move them hundreds of miles away from their family. The evidence shows that rehabilitation is far less successful if people are moved hundreds of miles away from their families, and that’s what the superprison concept essentially represents. Let’s look at the real motivating factor behind this Conservative policy—[Interruption.] If you’d like to intervene on me, I’ll take your intervention. Let’s look at the real motivation. This is austerity—[Interruption.] All right, okay, I’ll take an intervention. Go on.