Tough and Meaningful and Proportionate and Illegal

As with the issue of prisoners' voting rights, which famously interferes with Daveybloke's Bullingdon digestion, when it comes to the treatment of female inmates the Government is living up to its international obligations after the usual fashion. Having signed up to UN standards, Daveybloke and the boys have been happily ignoring them for two years, imprisoning women who pose no threat to society and taking no account of the rights of inmates' children. The first report on the Government's lack of progress also criticises the approach to mental health and says that there needs to be discussion of "patriarchy, identity, shame, love, attachment, feminism, loss, abuse and equality of opportunity", which for some reason are not yet subjects of daily conversation at Chris Graybeing's Ministry for Justice and Heterosexual Hostelries.