There are no votes in prisons. What goes on inside them is usually invisible to the voting public. They house people who have committed crime or who have been accused of committing crime - so the sympathy of the voting public is limited.
But just occasionally, the curtain is drawn back and what we see is truly shocking.
The findings of the coroner about the suicide of Luke Rich reveal how money was not spent and, as a result, a man died, alone and unable to call the mother who now grieves for him.
