Jail Bird: Behind Bars and Beyond – How Britain’s Legal System Really Works Katharine Edwards £9.99, Wolf Moon Books ★★★✩✩This book is a comprehensive review of prison law and policy, and legal practice from a practitioner’s perspective. It describes the sort of work that is done and how the author ended up behind bars (representing prisoners). Edwards, who has practised prison law since 2008, also provides a history of the prison system. Prison officers are called screws because they used a screw to tighten up the treadmill on which inmates walked as a form of punishment. Austerity led to the loss of experienced officers at a huge financial cost, and privatising probation services was not a success story.