... bear the responsibility for standards and treatment of prisoners. Finally I will also consider throughout if there is an alternative to prisons and privatisation of, and whether the moral argument really holds any weight at all. First and foremost it is important to define moral, a word that itself is a living instrument of the English language, the use of which has changed over the centuries, with society and the law of the country. Moral is defined in the oxford concise dictionary2 as 'concerned with; goodness or badness or human character or behaviour; or with distinction between right and wrong; accepted rules and standards of human behaviour; a conforming to accepted standards of general conduct'. Secondly, the word wrong in its proper definition is 'contrary to the law of morality; less or least desirable'3, these terms seem to suggest that it is not in itself an argument that prison privatisation is in itself ...

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