Drug-dealing inmates “should be treated like terrorists”

After 6 years as chief inspector of prisons tackling the crisis in Britain’s jails, Charlie Taylor sees organised criminals “operating with impunity”, cynically seeking to groom inexperienced officers with their polite “nice guy” tactics. The overcrowding crisis is taking staff away from the job of tackling the roots of prisoners’ criminality – including alcohol and drugs – to prevent reoffending.