Prisons in Parliament
Posted: March 20, 2017 Filed under: News | Tags: Concerted indiscipline, crisis response, HMP Birmingham, HMP Doncaster, HMP Lowdham Grange Leave a commentPublic prison service called to bail out private prisons in times of crisis
Response to indiscipline. Photo: minoru karamatsu(柄松 稔)
Prisons in Parliament brings you up-to-date on the last week of politics and prisons. What’s been said? And by whom? Get it all here.
Immigration Detention Dispatch – 16 March 2017
Posted: March 16, 2017 Filed under: Detention Centres, News | Tags: Brook House, children, deportation, immigration, immigration detention, immigration removal centre, parliament, Protest, removal, Yarl's Wood Leave a commentAverage length of stay in Brook House removal centre rises as some “held for years”
Credit: Darren Johnson
Catch up on the fortnight’s immigration detention news and parliamentary debate
Prisons in Parliament
Posted: March 15, 2017 Filed under: News | Tags: Fire, HMP Birmingham, HMP Northumberland, HMP Thameside, Panorama Leave a commentFire fire! Highest number of fire-related incidents at privately owned prisons
Serco owned HMP Thameside had the most fires in 2016. Image: Serco
Prisons in Parliament brings you up-to-date on the last week of politics and prisons. What’s been said? And by whom? Get it all here.
Prisons in the press – 9 March
Posted: March 10, 2017 Filed under: News | Tags: drugs, HMP Strangeways, PITP, Spice, women in prison Leave a commentDrugs seized 30 times a day and a murder suspect released by mistake
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Prisons in the press brings you the best articles from the past week to keep you up-to-date on prison news.
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Prison staff under strain
Posted: March 9, 2017 Filed under: News | Tags: Assaults on staff, Glyn Travis, Prison Officers Association (POA), self inflicted deaths, Trauma Leave a commentUnprecedented rise in treatment for work related trauma
Prison Officer’s planned industrial action. Image: Getty images, Cate Gillon
Spending on therapy for prison staff increased nearly ten-fold in the last two years, a parliamentary question has revealed.
Immigration Detention Dispatch – 1 March 2017
Posted: March 1, 2017 Filed under: Detention Centres, News | Tags: Australia, costs, deportation, detention, Dungavel, Green Party, immigration, immigration removal centres, parliament, student, Yarl's Wood Leave a comment“Exceptional” student narrowly escapes deportation from Yarl’s Wood
Credit: Darren Johnson
Catch up on the fortnight’s immigration detention news and parliamentary debate
Fearful inmates asked to be locked in cells
Posted: February 28, 2017 Filed under: News | Tags: HM Inspectorate of Prisons, HMP Featherstone, Michael Spurr, Peter Clarke, Violence in prison Leave a commentHMP Featherstone: Inmates “living in fear”
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A damning report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons found inmates locked up in their cells for the best part of 24 hours,
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Prisons in Parliament
Posted: February 27, 2017 Filed under: News | Tags: Indeterminate sentencing for Public Protection (IPP)., luciana berger, Panorama, PIP, psychoactive substances, self inflicted deaths, suicide Leave a commentGovernment to learn lessons from rising tide of suicides, by spending less investigating them
Exeter prison. Home to the highest number of deaths in 2015. Image source: Bazzadarambler
Prisons in Parliament brings you up-to-date on the last week of politics and prisons. What’s been said? And by whom? Get it all here.
Prisons in the press – 17 February
Posted: February 17, 2017 Filed under: News | Tags: drugs, Liz Truss, Mobile phones, PITP, Spice, wrexham prison Leave a commentPrisons rife with Spice and contraband in crisp packets
Prison visitor tried to smuggle drugs and phones in crisp packets. Image: Umami
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Prisons in the press brings you the best articles from the past week to keep you up-to-date on prison news.
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Immigration Detention Dispatch – 15 February 2017
Posted: February 15, 2017 Filed under: Detention Centres, News | Tags: Barnardos, child, DACA, detention, Dungavel, G4S, immigration, minor, Shaw Review, Stephen Shaw, Tinsley House, Trump Leave a commentG4S to replace Barnardo’s for child welfare support after charity condemns latest plans
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