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Rehabilitation of Prisoners

: I would like to reinforce that point. I hope that this view came across in my earlier comments. The story that we have had from Ministers, particularly in the past six to nine months, and the Home Secretary's important speech to the Prison Reform Trust, set out a vision of how the system should be, which accords with a great deal in the Select Committee report. We need to acknowledge that getting to grips with the system and the people who run it, many of whom are good people, is an enormous change management job for Ministers. The Prison Service is a huge organisation that is very complex and difficult to manage. Our report was aimed every bit as much at getting the people who run the system to see the possibilities as at criticising what Ministers were saying to us.