This news from Britain: Britain is running out of time to clean up tense overcrowded prisons and avoid the worst riots in ten years, according to a top prison governor. Many jails are dirty with poor facilities, and some measures to improve conditions have simply replaced one squalid condition for another — this according to Christopher Scott, president of the Prison Governors’ Association. Scott said tensions in some jails are rising as quickly as they were in 1990 before almost 200 people were injured in riots at a prison in Manchester in Northwest England. The riots at Strangeways Jail, in which forty-seven prisoners and 147 police and prison officials were hurt, lasted twenty-five days, the longest in British penal history.