"Robinson presents a problem for the prison service. “The decisions around how and where Robinson will be held are fraught with difficulty for prison bosses,” said Ian Acheson, a counter-extremism adviser and former prison governor...Acheson warned that attempts were being made to propagandise his imprisonment, and misinformation about his treatment was already spreading on social media. The Tommy Robinson propaganda machine seems unlikely to go away."

"Robinson was also kept isolated during his last stint in prison, something which would be a "headache" for prisoner officers, according to former prison governor Ian Acheson."

"Former prison governor Ian Acheson said the decision where to put Robinson would be a 'real headache' for the prison service.

'You have someone who would not be considered an escape risk, hasn't been convicted for a crime of violence and has been found guilty of breaking a civil restriction, so normally he could be put in open conditions,' he said.

'But open prisons are very unsupervised and that could leave Robinson at risk of being attacked.

'There is also a risk of his presence disrupting the good order of the prison due to the presence of people who might sympathise with him - particularly as the far-right push the narrative of the rioters being ''political prisoners''.' "

“Ian Acheson and Paul Embery discuss the rioter who has died in prison. This is a clip from the latest episode of the spiked podcast.”

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson: "‘House arrest’ may be a term more usually associated with tinpot dictatorships but it has in fact been a key feature of our crime control apparatus for years. Home Detention Curfew (HSC) was brought in under Labour in 1999. Now the Justice Secretary wants to extend that Blairite concept which covered only the last six months of an offender’s custody to the whole sentence. Will this make a difference in solving Britain’s omnishambles prison crisis?"

“Former prison governor Ian Acheson says the justice system is much worse than just two-tier policing, after an asylum hotel rioter died in prison. "The first thing I want to say to Mr. Lynch's family is that I've got huge amounts of sympathy for them."”

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "Today, over a thousand offenders will walk out of jail early as part of the government’s ongoing emergency scheme to ease the pressure on our crippled prison system. This time at least officials have dropped the pretence that no dangerous criminals will walk free earlier than a judge decided they should serve. Goodbye just deserts, hello justice by logistics."

"Ian Acheson, a former prison governor and government adviser, said: “Any death in custody is a tragedy. Not all can be prevented.

“However, the profile of this offender, rightly jailed for his role in rioting, suggests to me he ought to have at least been considered as a suicide risk.

“The investigation which must take place after a fatal incident in a prison will need to explore this in relation to his vulnerability and care.”"

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "What should we do about our national crisis of confidence? In every sense, confidence and trust in our institutions and national infrastructure is tanking. Let me count the ways. Tomorrow, I plan to go to London from Exeter. I have low confidence that when I get to the station my train will appear at all, let alone on time, in the right configuration or survive past Reading’s engineering twilight zone."