Rob Rinder: I’d take prison over Trollope any day, but making offenders read beats locking them up

As a lover of the written word, I was fascinated by the sentence handed down in Leicester last week. Dealing with a 21-year-old who’d downloaded piles of white supremacist garbage, the judge handed down a suspended prison term… but also said the young convict had to read some great works of literature, covering everyone from Shakespeare to Dickens. “Think about Hardy,” he told him.” Think about Trollope”.