Churchill: Prison Reformer

By: vivian on terça-feira, outubro 25, 2016

Winston Churchill was taken as a Prisoner of War during the Boer War, when he was serving as a wartime correspondent. He was treated relatively well – the Boers wished to show the world how civilized they were, and treated their prisoners much better than the British treated theirs – but Churchill hated being imprisoned and escaped as quickly as he could. Later during his brief time as Home Secretary in 1910, he was a force for prison reform. He ensured British prisoners had access to books and to the outdoors. He pushed for reintegration, not punishment, to be the model. And most of all Churchill tried ‘to prevent as many people as possible getting there at all.’

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