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The
Editor
Glamorgan
Gazette Brackla
Street Centre
Bridgend
CF31 1DD
20th
November 2000 Dear
Sir, The
Commission for Racial Equality and Home Office Minister Paul Boateng are not
helping us by labelling poor prison discipline as ‘Institutional Racism’.
If, as alleged in The Express, it is true that at Parc Prison in Bridgend
‘one wing was run by white prisoners allied to the Ku Klux Klan’, surely the
real issue is a worrying breakdown in control at the prison.
We all agree that if bullying and intimidation are rife in our prisons,
these institutions will be academies for crime and anti social behaviour and we
will all suffer when prisoners are released only to re-offend again. Too
often, using the race card against our institutions obscures the real problems
which need to be addressed. We saw
the bad effect on police morale and recruitment when the inquiry into the murder
of young Stephen Lawrence looked into an obviously sloppy and flawed
investigation and branded the entire police force as ‘institutionally
racist’. Let us not make the same
mistakes again. If prison officers
are unprofessional and prisoners are out of control, this needs to be solved
swiftly. Political correctness runs
the risk of demoralising good prison officers along with bad and may even
increase staff resistance to necessary improvements in standards and procedures. Yours
faithfully Tania
Brisby Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Bridgend (Conservative)
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