Slipping From The Dock To The Bay

I have just come back from a weekend away to find, amid the usual torrent of spam, that The Guardian has borrowed the Archer/Hollesley Bay story. They have the kindness to refer to the blog as 'acclaimed', but I have little or no confidence that a cheque might be in the post.
This story points out the consequences of NOMS' use of open prisons as overflows for the crammed closed estate. I went to Hollesley Bay some time ago, and I felt then, as I feel now, that it has to be right to try to ease prisoners who have served substantial sentences back into the world of work and family. Unfortunately the open prisons will now end up warehousing prisoners like so much of the closed estate.