I am not sure it is a good idea that prison visitors should possess, as preconditions, skills in administration, law, criminology, human rights, social work, education and medicine. A criminologist who applies to be on a prison visiting board is, in some sense, using the prison board to test out his own ideas and to be an activist. Do we want people who have an agenda coming into prisons rather than people who have the statutory agenda, although this may need review, to do the best for the prisoners and to bring an ordinary person's common sense approach to the issues? Do we want people with pre-existing theories or a political or sociological agenda to apply?