The Anglican Bishop of Portsmouth has compared “horrendous” Titan prisons to diabolical characters in Greek mythology.The British Government is planning to build three Titan prisons that will hold 2,500 inmates each as part of a plan to tackle prison overcrowding.
Justice minister Lord Bach had argued, at question time in the House of Lords, that the prisons would replace some old jails and enable better rehabilitation work to be carried out.
But Bishop Kenneth Stevenson told peers: “In ancient Greek mythology, the Titans were a pretty unsavoury lot. One of them cut off the unmentionable parts of his father with a sickle, married one of his sisters, swallowed five of his children and finally, along with his siblings, was cast into the dreaded Lake Tartarus.
“Will Lord Bach comment on that scenario in relation to these horrendous prisons, about which, in spite of his wonderfully sanguine demeanour and voice this afternoon, many of us are deeply sceptical?”
Lord Bach replied that that was shy the Government now calls them “larger prisons”.
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