Our coverage of a crisis state in prisons related to the prisons of England and Wales only, not prisons in the whole of the UK as the headline suggested (“Shock figures reveal the dire state of Britain’s failing prisons”, News, last week, pages 1 and 37).
In citing Esquire magazine, we unknowingly repeated one of its errors. Will Hersey did not create the list of the “24 funniest books ever written”, which Esquire published and one of our columnists criticised. Esquire got the byline wrong (“Yes, each to her own on comic taste, but is it so rare for men and women to laugh together?”, Comment, last week, page 53).
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