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Abstract
Far too many of the 75,000 prisoners in our jails spend their sentence passively serving time not having to take responsibility for their day to day activities. Regimes are highly structured and prisoners have minimal control over their lives. They are treated as passive recipients of decisions made by management that they have no stake in. And any responsibilities that they might have had to their families, friends and communities are taken away. In effect their citizenship and the norms of behaviour that are part of it are suspended. Prisoners are viewed as offenders and criminals not as citizens.