{"podcast":{"title":"Law and Disorder: News, politics and more, from a legal perspective","slug":"law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162","podcast_index_feed_id":6759162,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec/1746198139250-271485cd-969a-4646-bbaa-bd2713bc72f1.jpeg","author":"Podot","episode_count":113,"summary":"Law and Disorder is a new weekly podcast looking at the biggest issues in the news through the prism of the law. We've brought together three of the UK's best legal minds: recently retired High Court judge Sir Nicholas Mostyn, barrister and human rights campaigner Baroness Helena Kennedy, and Charlie Falconer, a Labour peer and former Lord Chancellor. Subscribe now for weekly episodes disentangling the thorniest of subjects, from Rishi Sunak's Rwanda bill to the situation in Gaza, via Post Office scandals, Prince Harry and privacy and much, much more. Law and Disorder is a Podot podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T14:17:01.767841+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162"},"episode":{"title":"Understaffed and Overcrowded Prisons: Where do we go from here?","slug":"understaffed-and-overcrowded-prisons-where-do-we-go-from-here","published_at":"2026-07-22T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162/understaffed-and-overcrowded-prisons-where-do-we-go-from-here","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162","url":"https://shows.acast.com/law-and-disorder-2/episodes/the-state-of-our-prisons","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65aa5c04a3555100168f5eec/e/6a5faa3cbfcc3b29ae0fb066/media.mp3","summary":"What state are our prisons really in? At 98% capacity but with a 68% reoffending rate (for shorter sentences), it seems punishment we're good at, but rehabilitation we are not, nor are we freeing up space for other convicts, which in turn would help tackle the great criminal court backlog. To help us understand where we're headed - or where we'd like to be - we're joined this week by the head of the Howard League for Penal Reform. Andrea Coomber KC. Law and Disorder is a Podot podcast. Hosted by: Charlie Falconer, Helena Kennedy, Nicholas Mostyn. Executive Producer and editor: Nick Hilton. Associate Producers: Lulu Goad Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"What state are our prisons really in? At 98% capacity but with a 68% reoffending rate (for shorter sentences), it seems punishment we're good at, but reha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2183,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162/episodes/understaffed-and-overcrowded-prisons-where-do-we-go-from-here/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/law-and-disorder-news-politics-and-more-from-a-legal-perspective-6759162/understaffed-and-overcrowded-prisons-where-do-we-go-from-here.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}