Happy Christmas from the Prison Watch UK team

Posted: December 27, 2016 | Author: emilykeen2014 | Filed under: News | Leave a comment

We’ll be back in the New Year

Source: Carol Pyles on Flickr

Happy Christmas! The team at Prison Watch will be back in 2017, shining a light on British prisons.

In the meantime, read one mans experience of spending Christmas in prison, here.

Prisons in the press – 23 December

Posted: December 23, 2016 | Author: Jordan Elizabeth Milne | Filed under: News | Tags: Christmas, HMP Birmingham, Liz Truss, PITP, prison officers, prison riot | Leave a comment

After the Birmingham prison riots and HMP Bristol’s Christmas dinner

Image: Ian Turk Christmas Pudding

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 – 21 December 2016

Posted: December 21, 2016 | Author: Elaine Allaby | Filed under: Detention Centres, News | Tags: adults at risk, British Bill of Rights, Colnbrook, death, deaths in custody, detention, human rights, Human Rights Act, immigration, Morton Hall, pregnant, Shaw Review | Leave a comment

Second death in detention in one week, as three quarters of detained people lack legal aid

Credit: Darren Johnson

Catch up on the fortnight’s immigration detention news and parliamentary debate

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Prisons in parliament

Posted: December 19, 2016 | Author: emilykeen2014 | Filed under: News | Tags: Indeterminate sentencing for Public Protection (IPP)., Liz Truss, PIP, self-harm, YOI | Leave a comment

Outcomes for children in custody not good enough admits Truss

Prisoner 101115. Under 25s entrant to the 2015 Koestler exhibition

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Prisons in the press – 16 December

Posted: December 16, 2016 | Author: Jordan Elizabeth Milne | Filed under: News | Tags: Inspector of Probation, Oscar Wilde, PITP, private prisons, Violence in prison | Leave a comment

Dangerous private prisons and the jail that will soon be student digs

A famous cell key goes up for sale. Image: Ke Dickson

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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Overcrowding and staff shortages at HMP Cardiff

Posted: December 15, 2016 | Author: emilykeen2014 | Filed under: News | Tags: Assault, drugs, HMIP report, HMP Cardiff, overcrowding, The Howard League for Penal Reform | 1 Comment

Prisoners can spend up to 27 hours in cell without clean clothes and bedding report finds

Prison cell at HMP Cardiff where men can spend up to 27 hours at a time. Image HM Inspectorate report

Holding 770 male adult prisoners, HMP Cardiff was originally designed for 539 men. Amid overcrowding and understaffing, the latest inspection report found cells in a poor state, increasing availability of drugs and rising violence.

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