Prisons in Parliament
Posted: February 15, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: drugs, Fire, learning disabilities, PIP 1 CommentMinisters get fired up: Drugs and mental health provision debated this week
How many fires have there been in prison over the last five years? Image: Premasager
Prisons in Parliament keeping you up-to-date on the last week of politics and prisons. What has been said and by whom? Find out here…
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Prisons in the press – 12 February
Posted: February 12, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: David Cameron, legal highs, mothers, rat, suicide, Wrexham Leave a commentThe biggest prison shake-up for a century and a painful rat infestation
A prisoner is set to sue after claiming to have been bitten by a rat in his cell. Image: Vic DeLeon
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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.
Cameron’s prison reforms merely ‘expansion and privatisation’ of criminal justice
Posted: February 11, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Cameron speech, CCJS, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, David Cameron, Frances Crook, policy exchange, Prison reform, Richard Garside, The Howard League for Penal Reform 2 CommentsPrime minister promises ‘biggest shake-up’ in prisons since Victorian times but experts are sceptical
‘Resetting the debate’: Cameron announces prison reforms. Photo: Conservative Party
David Cameron has undone decades of Conservative rhetoric of being ‘tough on crime,’ admitting that Britain’s prison system has been a “scandalous failure” for years and calling for reform to be the “great progressive cause” of British politics.
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Lords divided over controversial time limit in UK Immigration Bill
Posted: February 10, 2016 Filed under: Detention Centres, News | Tags: debate, government, Immigration Bill, immigration detention, Lords, parliament, Shaw Review, time limit Leave a comment‘Medieval’ UK detention system is ‘one a dictator would rejoice in’
The House of Lords. Source: Wikimedia Commons
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The House of Lords is so divided over the UK’s controversial new Immigration Bill that one peer has suggested scrapping the legislation altogether and starting from scratch. The Bill, which saw its fifth sitting in the House of Lords yesterday, is the subject of intense controversy, including over issues such as immigration detention.
Prisons in Parliament
Posted: February 8, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Medway, PIP, Prison staff, voting Leave a commentRevealed: the Ministers that visited Medway
Which Ministers visited Medway? Image: BBC
Prisons in Parliament keeping you up-to-date on the last week of politics and prisons. What has been said and by whom? Find out here…
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Prisons in the press – 5 February
Posted: February 5, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Assaults on staff, Chris Grayling, Nick Hardwick, PITP, self-harm, smoking, suicide 1 CommentPlans for prisoners to be allowed to smoke in their cells and a Duchess behind bars
The Duchess of Cornwall visited Brixton prison. Image: Shaun Amey
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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.
‘Rampant and sustained’ abuse of children in UK prisons – comment by The Guardian’s Eric Allison
Posted: February 3, 2016 | Author: Eric Allison | Filed under: Comment | Tags: Bhatt Murphy, Children's Rights Alliance England, CRAE, Eric Allison, Ministry of Justice, Panorama, Prison News, secure training centres, STCs | 2 CommentsAbuse of children in STCs has been going on far too long, writes the Guardian’s prisons correspondent
Horror stories: Eric Allison has files full of information about secure training centres
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I expect many readers will have watched BBC’s Panorama programme ‘Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed’ on Monday 11 January. Read the rest of this entry »