Social movement is a potential tool in solving UK prison crisis by helping ex-convicts learn new skills and readjust

Good beer, said Thomas Jefferson, “softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health”.

It may also be a potential tool for helping solve the crisis in British prisons. A craft brewery set up to employ ex-convicts and train them in the art of ale-making has proved a success in cutting reoffending rates – and is now being hailed as a possible template for ways to ease the unprecedented overcrowding in UK jails.