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
Harm: suicide rates are still on the rise. Photograph: premasagar via flickr
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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