Amid Britain’s ever-growing prison population, the role of the chaplain remains vital, providing solidarity and friendship to inmates. Here, a former MP and government Minister released from jail last week recalls the simple humanity offered to him at a time of loneliness and loss It’s not often you get to spend Christmas and the New Year with murderers, gunmen, terrorists and drug-dealers but that was my privilege a few weeks ago.Thirty years ago, I was imprisoned in Poland, when I was caught running money to the underground operations of the Polish trade union, Solidarity. The Polish CPS (Communist Prosecution Service) decided to charge me with false accounting and hooliganism, but after only a few days in a prison cell I was deported.This time, although I was spared the ch