Still Too Good For Them

The residents (inmates, in Standard English) of a redemption emporium for unfortunate women in Derbyshire have achieved record levels of self-harm, amid a no-nonsense safety régime usually seen only in warehouses for males. Most female prisoners are incarcerated for non-violent offences; but the Government intends creating many more female prisoners and a task force, so doubtless the violence will soon attain more world-beating levels. It remains as yet unclear how far the taxpayer will continue to tolerate the moral strain of their apparently limitless access to the Samaritans; nevertheless, connoisseurs of British justice will rejoice that the all-important punitive element is so far from being neglected that much of it has been outsourced to the wayward fillies themselves.