Prisons in Parliament – 12 Dec
Posted: December 13, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: detached duty, Drones, Liz Truss, staffing, transgender, young offenders Leave a commentPrison reform, detached duty and young & transgender prisoners
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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
… Image: Zlatko Vickovic
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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.
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 parliament
Posted: October 10, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Conservative party conference 2015, Liz Truss, recruitment, staffing Leave a commentRecruitment to be at heart of reform says justice secretary
The new justice secretary set out her vision for reform at the conservative party conference last week, explaining that old prisons would continue to be replaced and a recruitment drive would help make prisons safer.
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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Prisons in the press – 30 Sept 2016
Posted: September 30, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: legal highs, Mobile phones, overcrowding, self-harm, staffing, suicide, use of force, violence, women, women in prison, young offenders, youth justice Leave a commentEasier to get drugs than clothes or bedding in English prison
Source: Chris Grey on 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 – 24 June
Posted: June 24, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: IPP, PITP, prison riot, self-harm, staffing, Violence in prison 1 CommentRates of self-harm soar and a King is found buried under a prison
The final resting place of Henry I of England is thought to be below one of Britain’s Victorian jails
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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.
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.
Here are seven things we learnt from the report. Read the rest of this entry »
Prisons in the press – 6 May
Posted: May 6, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: Attacks on prison staff, drugs in prison, Fire, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, PITP, staffing Leave a commentRise in drugs, fires and baked goods…
Freedom Bakery gives promise of new hope to inamtes. Image: Tony Webster
Prisons in the press brings you the best articles from the past week to keep you up-to-date on prison news.
Doncaster Prison ‘certainly cannot be allowed to get any worse’
Posted: March 31, 2016 Filed under: News | Tags: assaults, HMP Doncaster, Inspectorate of Prisons report, segregation, self-harm, staffing, violence Leave a commentPrisoners too frightened to leave their cells
HMP Doncaster: “This report describes a very poor prison”
The Serco-run HMP Doncaster has come under heavy fire in the latest HMP Inspectorate of Prisons report. Too many prisoners reported feeling unsafe and were at risk of violence or self-harm.
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