Prisons in the press – 9 March
Posted: March 10, 2017 Filed under: News | Tags: drugs, HMP Strangeways, PITP, Spice, women in prison Leave a commentDrugs seized 30 times a day and a murder suspect released by mistake
Credit: Guillermo Ruiz, Flickr
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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.
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Prisons in the press – 17 February
Posted: February 17, 2017 Filed under: News | Tags: drugs, Liz Truss, Mobile phones, PITP, Spice, wrexham prison Leave a commentPrisons rife with Spice and contraband in crisp packets
Prison visitor tried to smuggle drugs and phones in crisp packets. Image: Umami
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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.
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Overcrowding and staff shortages at HMP Cardiff
Posted: December 15, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Assault, drugs, HMIP report, HMP Cardiff, overcrowding, The Howard League for Penal Reform 1 CommentPrisoners 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.
Prisons in Parliament
Posted: December 8, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Drones, drugs, Mobile phones, PIP, White Paper Leave a commentWhere’s the beef behind the White Paper?
Crack down on drones, but how? Asks minister. Photo: Richard Unten
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.
Crack down on drugs, drones and mobile phones promises Truss
Posted: November 7, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Drones, drugs, Mobile phones, overcrowding, staffing, White Paper Leave a commentJustice secretary announced White Paper prison reforms in parliament this week
Liz Truss: First female Lord High Chancellor. Image: Dominic Lipinski/PA, The Guardian
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 – 4 November
Posted: November 4, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Drones, drugs, Liz Truss, Mobile phones, PITP, rehabilitation, suicide Leave a comment2,500 more officers to be recruited to fight the war on drugs, drones and mobile phones
Eagles could soon be used to down drones. Image: Don McCullough
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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.
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Prisons in the press – 7 October
Posted: October 7, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: deportation, drugs, hm inspectorate of probation, illegal highs, legal highs, prison riot, probation, radicalisation, staffing Leave a commentProbation overhaul criticised, more prison officers and trouble at Maghaberry
WTF by a prisoner called Peter at HMP Dovegate. Source: Prison Watch UK
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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.
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HMP Bedford condemned in latest Chief Inspector of Prisons report
Posted: September 29, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: drugs, HMP Bedford, Spice, suicide, violence 1 CommentEasier for prisoners to get drugs than clothes and bed sheets in Bedford Prison
Category B and resettlement HMP Bedford Prison. Image: LawPages
HMP Bedford condemned for rising rates of suicide, violence and “easy access” to illegal drugs in latest Chief Inspector of Prisons report
Prisons in Parliament is back…
Posted: September 12, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: drugs, PIP, prison estate, Prison staff Leave a comment…With someone new in the dispatch box: ‘How will she succeed where her predecessors have failed?’
Liz Truss: First female Lord High Chancellor. Image: Number 10
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.
Grim situation getting worse says HM Inspectorate of Prisons
Posted: July 22, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: drugs, HMI Prisons, HMIP report, mental health, violence, YOI Leave a commentIncreasing drug use and escalating violence across the prison estate
Chief Inspectorate of Prisons releases 2015 report
“I have found that the grim situation referred to by Nick Hardwick in his report last year has not improved, and in some key areas it has, if anything, become even worse” says Peter Clarke, Chief Inspectorate of Prisons.
