Immigration Detention Dispatch – 18 January 2017
Posted: January 18, 2017 Filed under: Detention Centres, News | Tags: children, death, deaths in custody, detention, documentary, Home Office, immigration, immigration detention, mental health, Operation Magnify, parliament, pregnant, slavery, suicide, women Leave a commentThird immigration detention death in six weeks as report finds mental health services “patchy”

Credit: Darren Johnson
Catch up on the fortnight’s immigration detention news and parliamentary debate
Immigration Detention Dispatch – 21 December 2016
Posted: December 21, 2016 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 commentSecond 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
Prisons in Parliament
Posted: November 22, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Assaults on staff, deaths in custody, PIP, Prison Officers Association (POA), prison safety 2 CommentsIn face of strike action, prison officers safety is up for debate

Strike action across England and Wales: Source, Bakaedar Flickr
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 – 11 November
Posted: November 11, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: assaults, deaths in custody, documentary, Drones, prison riot, staffing, transgender, Violence in prison Leave a commentRiot, break-out and fascinating documentaries

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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.
Prisons in the press – 7 July
Posted: July 8, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: chilcot inquiry, children of prisoners, deaths in custody, HMP Woodhill, Lionel Messi, Oscar Pistorious, PITP, Prison Officers Association (POA), prisons in the press, suicide, Tony Blair, walkouts Leave a commentGloomy stats, drug spats and cyber attacks

Should Tony Blair face jail for his role in taking the UK to war in Iraq? Photograph: Chatham House
Prisons in the press brings you the best articles from the past week to keep you up-to-date on prison news.
Prisons in the Press – 1 July
Posted: July 1, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: deaths in custody, Mobile phones, PITP, Scottish prison, Violence in prison Leave a commentMobile phone blockers, a bloody prison and a floating jail

Prison services tested mobile phone blockers, documents reveal. Image: yisris
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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.
How to prevent suicide in prison and beyond
Posted: May 18, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Cambridge Institute of Criminology, Cambridge university, deaths in custody, HMP Altcourse, HMP and YOI Foston Hall, Lorraine Atkinson, mental health, mentoring, self inflicted deaths, self-harm, suicide, The Howard League for Penal Reform 1 CommentHighlights from the 2016 suicide prevention roundtable with Cambridge University
The Prison Watch UK team were live at HMP Altcourse today at the 2016 suicide prevention roundtable. We bring you the highlights…
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