Prisons in Parliament
Posted: November 30, 2015 Filed under: News | Tags: HMP Holloway, mental health, Michael Gove, PIP Leave a commentHolloway closure: first step in prison reform?
HMP Holloway
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 – 27 November
Posted: November 27, 2015 Filed under: News | Tags: HMP Holloway, legal highs, Michael Gove, PITP, prison closures, transgender, women in prison, women's prison 1 CommentJail closures, transgender prisoners and Miss Criminal 2015 in this week’s news
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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.
What will the new UK immigration bill mean for the detention system?
Posted: November 25, 2015 Filed under: Detention Centres, News | Tags: asylum seeker, Home Office, immigrants, Immigration Bill, immigration detention, immigration removal centres, parliament, pregnant, refugees, torture victims, women Leave a commentHome Office appears reluctant to make changes, but review might help.
Pregnant women can be locked up indefinitely in UK immigration detention. Credit: Francesco, Flickr
The British government is doing its best to create a “hostile environment” for “illegal immigrants”. That is the stated aim of the new Immigration Bill, which politicians have been debating for the past few weeks.
Prisons in Parliament
Posted: November 23, 2015 Filed under: News | Tags: PIP, smoking ban Leave a commentWhat lessons will be learnt from drugs when enforcing the smoking ban?
HMP Winchester
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 – 20 November
Posted: November 20, 2015 Filed under: News | Tags: Cats, Drones, HMP Birmingham, HMP Oakwood, Ministry of Justice, MMPR, Nick Hardwick, PITP, Restraint systems, STC, YOI Leave a commentCats sent to prison and an inmate takes to the roof
An animal rescue charity has enlisted the help of prisoners. Image: Etienne Tremblay
Prisons in the press brings you the best articles from the past week to keep you up-to-date on prison news.
Reversing the flow: channeling prisoners into college
Posted: November 19, 2015 Filed under: News | Tags: Baz Dreisinger, Learning Together, Prison to College Pipeline Leave a commentA New York scheme creates pathways from prison to college, and now Britain is following suit
Professor Dreisinger at a conference on education in prison. Photograph: Prison Watch UK
“What, you mean you’re surprised there are intelligent people in prison?” A rhetorical question, it is one all too often asked by Baz Dresinger.
Prisons in Parliament
Posted: November 16, 2015 Filed under: News | Tags: Andrew Selous, IPP, PIP, Religion Leave a commentIndefinite sentencing and provision for religion under scrutiny this week
Religious provision in prison comes under scrutiny
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 – 13 November
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: News | Tags: Drone, drugs, George Osborne, HMP Cardiff, HMP Manchester, HMP USK, Maghaberry jail, Mice, Michael Gove, PITP, Victoria Prison, Wrexham Leave a commentDrug smuggling mice and the end of the Victorian prison
What’s the difference between a drone and a mouse? Image: Kordite
Prisons in the press brings you the best articles from the past week to keep you up-to-date on prison news.
Are these the nine British Victorian prisons that Osborne and Gove will close?
Posted: November 12, 2015 Filed under: News | Tags: Chief Inspector, drugs, George Osborne, HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Michael Gove, overcrowding, self-harm, suicide, Victorian prisons, violence 1 CommentHelp us figure out which old jails will close
Source: Wikipedia
Have we seen the end of Britain’s Victorian prisons with their Dickensian conditions?
Well, not quite yet. But the government has announced that it will close Victorian jails and build nine new prisons – five of them by 2020.
It will say exactly which prisons will shut on 25 November. We thought we’d have an educated guess before then. But we need your help.
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Comment by The Guardian’s Eric Allison: miscarriages of justice
Posted: November 26, 2015 | Author: Eric Allison | Filed under: Comment | Tags: Criminal Cases Review Commission, Eric Allison, jail, Jeremy Bamber, miscarriage of justice, prison, The Guardian | 1 CommentNewspaper’s prison correspondent says more innocent people are being jailed
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Every time I went to prison I was guilty – though I did not always plead so. It wasn’t my job to prosecute myself. I took the view that prison was an occupational hazard and once convicted, I tried to use the time to educate myself and, hopefully, make it harder for the prosecution next time around.
But what of those languishing behind bars who are not guilty? I am convinced there are more miscarriages of justice now than at any time since I have been a student of the system. Read the rest of this entry »