Kate Chisholm

Positive thinking

Young Governors Take Control (BBC Radio Four, Monday); The Golden Oriole (BBC Radio Four, Tuesday)

issue 13 December 2008

It’s not a job I could do now that I’m supposedly mature, let alone when I was in my twenties. To take charge of a prison full of angry young men plus a team of disgruntled, de-motivated staff officers. But on Radio Four this week and next we heard from four prison governors, most of whom are yet to reach their thirties.

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