rightly paid large sums of compensation.
Fascists will howl with hatred, of course ("how dare someone who broke the law be treated like a human being?"). I remember one very nice, shy, soft spoken inmate still inside six months after his sentence was completed. I told him I could tell him how to get released. He said no, he didn't want to make a fuss. Three months later he asked me in desperation. I wrote him two letters that he copied and sent off - one to his MP, the other to the Editor of a National Newspaper.
24 hours later he was released.
www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/may/01/c...e-delays?INTCMP=SRCH