Of course it should stop in England too, but it does seem that Wales would be a good place to pilot it on a manageable scale.

The Tory think tank, Centre for Social Justice, made what to me was a surprising, but sincere call for NOMS to be broken up, and for prisons and rehabilitation be devolved to the Assembly, in March this year. Story and links in the second half of this post:

http://syniadau–buildinganindependentwales.blogspot.com/2009/10/locked-in-to-wrong-sort-of-prison.html

So it does seem that greater devolution in this area is “on the agenda”.

Is there any chance of you being able to post a summary of your presentation? If it has powerpoint slides, there’s a neat way of embedding it in the blog using docstop.com It’s free and this is an example of how it works for me:

http://syniadau–buildinganindependentwales.blogspot.com/2009/10/yougov-full-results.html