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UK: Scourge of Home Secretary to go

01 May 1995

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Chief Inspector of Prisons Judge Stephen Tumim, who has acted as an irrepressible scourge of Michael Howard in his regular and forthright condemnations of prison conditions, will not have his contract renewed when it expires in October. Appointed by Howard's predecessor Douglas Hurd as a safe, "establishment" man in 1987, Tumim delighted prison reformers and prisoners and infuriated politicians and officials with his refusal to be quiet on issues such as slopping out, overcrowding, access to drugs, lack of decent medical and educational facilities and prison suicides. Believing in prison as part of a rehabilitation process, he demands "immediate and intensive" education to deal with the large number of illiterate people in prison. In his seven years, he has given the public an immediate and intensive education on prisons from the inside. Independent 27.5.95

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