Meet the new Justice Secretary Liz Truss
Posted: July 14, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, Lord Chancellor, Michael Gove, Ministry of Justice 1 CommentFirst female Lord Chancellor in almost 1,000 years
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Liz Truss has replaced Michael Gove as Justice Secretary and become the first woman to hold the post of Lord Chancellor in 950 years.
‘A living hell’ – the untold story of the partner of a man on IPP
Posted: July 7, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: imprisonment for public protection, indeterminate sentences, IPP, Jacquie Fahy, Ministry of Justice, Victoria Seabrook 12 CommentsIt is not just the prisoners who suffer under indefinite sentences
‘No more tears’: Jacquie Fahy has struggled to cope while her partner has served his IPP sentence. Photograph: Victoria Seabrook
“It’s been a living hell. I can’t even begin to tell you how much work it’s been,” says Jacquie Fahy, whose partner is serving an indefinite prison sentence.
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Further privatisation, scrapping NPS – the latest twist in the probation service story?
Posted: June 8, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Clinks, Community Rehabilitation Companies, CRCs, hm inspectorate of probation, Jackie Russell, Ministry of Justice, National Audit Office, national probation service, NOMS, NPS, PCCs, Police and Crime Commissioners, privatisation, probation, Reform, The Howard League for Penal Reform, Transforming rehabilitation, Women's Breakout Leave a commentShould the national service be scrapped and all probation be run privately?
Through the gate: offenders often struggle adapting to life beyond bars.© Prisonimage.org
What is left of the National Probation Service should be disbanded. All forms of offender rehabilitation should be run privately.
These are the recommendations made by think tank Reform in a new report, Local commissioning, local solutions: devolving offender management.
Seven things we learnt about prison safety in England & Wales from latest major report
Posted: May 18, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: assaults, deaths in custody, drugs, Justice Select Committee, legal highs, Ministry of Justice, National Tactical Response Group, NOMS, Prison staff, self-harm, staffing, suicide Leave a commentParliamentary committee calls for urgent improvement of unsafe prisons
Credit: Guillermo Ruiz, Flickr
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The Justice Select Committee said prisons in England & Wales “continue to deteriorate significantly” and that “improvement is urgently needed” in its latest report on prison safety.
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Smoke cannons and balloons let off outside Holloway Prison in feminist protest
Posted: April 28, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: austerity, direct action, domestic violence, feminist, government cuts, HMP Holloway, holloway prison, Ministry of Justice, Protest, Sisters Uncut Leave a commentBut ministry of Justice defends its prison and probation spending
‘Black lives matter and the lives of all women matter’ Photo: Jade Jackman
Feminist protesters let off balloons outside HMP Holloway yesterday to commemorate the 77 women who have died in prison in the last 10 years.
Private prison providers fined £3.7m for contract breaches since 2010
Posted: April 7, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Andrew Selous, deaths in custody, G4S, Jo Stevens, Ministry of Justice, Peter Dawson, Prison Reform Trust, prisons, private prisons, suicide, Victoria Seabrook, violence Leave a commentFigures ‘low,’ gov claims, but campaigners highlight increase in violence
Fined: private companies receive financial penalties for contract failures. Photograph: x1klima
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Reducing prison population only way to reduce ‘shameful’ death rates, urge campaigners
Posted: March 10, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: deaths in custody, Deborah Coles, Inquest, Ministry of Justice, prison population, self inflicted deaths, suicides Leave a commentSame mistakes being made across policing and prison system, Inquest director says
Mentally ill people are four times more likely to die after being subjected to police force, the police watchdog found this week.
Prisons in the press – 26 February
Posted: February 26, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Drones, drugs, education, legal highs, Ministry of Justice, overcrowding, remand Leave a commentDrones, drugs and the d’Urbervilles…
Could the bones found in Dorchester’s former prison be that of the girl who inspired Thomas Hardy? Image: George Bayntun
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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 – 15 January
Posted: January 15, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: G4S, Islamist, Legal high, Medway, Ministry of Justice, rehabilitation, Soldiers Leave a commentAttacks on ex-soldiers and tougher rules on rehabilitation
Rehabilitation hit the headlines twice this week with charities and prisoners voicing their concerns. Image: Matthew
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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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‘Rampant and sustained’ abuse of children in UK prisons – comment by The Guardian’s Eric Allison
Posted: February 3, 2016 | Author: Eric Allison | Filed under: Comment | Tags: Bhatt Murphy, Children's Rights Alliance England, CRAE, Eric Allison, Ministry of Justice, Panorama, Prison News, secure training centres, STCs | 2 CommentsAbuse of children in STCs has been going on far too long, writes the Guardian’s prisons correspondent
Horror stories: Eric Allison has files full of information about secure training centres
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I expect many readers will have watched BBC’s Panorama programme ‘Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed’ on Monday 11 January. Read the rest of this entry »