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
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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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Comment: the prison system is in a worse state now than at any time I’ve known it
Posted: August 12, 2015 Filed under: Comment | Tags: comment, Eric Allison, HMP Strangeways, Michael Gove, prisons Leave a commentEric Allison, long time Guardian prisons correspondent and former prisoner, writes first fortnightly column for Prison Watch UK
Eric Allison joins Prison Watch UK to deliver fortnightly column. Photo: Karolina Webb.
When I first entered prison as an adult, in the mid 1960s, the conditions and practices I encountered were grim – to put it mildly. There was no in-cell sanitation and prisoners had to urinate and defecate in plastic chamber pots Read the rest of this entry »
You won’t believe how life repeats itself
Posted: September 2, 2015 | Author: Eric Allison | Filed under: Comment | Tags: Eric Allison, HMP Strangeways, Jeremy Wright, Prison Reform Trust, The Shannon Trust | Leave a commentThings change, but literacy will always have the same power, writes Eric Allison
Life has habit of coming full circle, writes Eric Allison. Photograph: Steve Grant.
They say that life goes in circles and the older I get, the more it seems to ring true.
When I ended my last prison sentence, a few days before the millennium, I walked out of Sudbury Prison on the border between Staffordshire and Derbyshire . Read the rest of this entry »