‘A compulsory, immediate ban on smoking in prisons has been overturned by the court of appeal, allowing the Ministry of Justice to introduce its own voluntary, phased controls.’
The Guardian, 8th March 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The independence of prison inspectors is to be guaranteed following complaints that the former Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, tried to water down their reports by removing criticisms of his approach to penal policy.’
The Independent, 10th February 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The new chief inspector of prisons has backed calls for a limit on how long people can be held in immigration removal centres after finding one detainee held for more than five years.’
The Guardian, 1st March 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A carer who claimed she suffocated her father because of his “intolerable” multiple sclerosis has been found guilty of murder.’
The Guardian, 26th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The private security firm G4S is to sell its UK children’s services business, including its contracts to run two youth prisons, weeks after damning footage emerged of its staff using excessive force on children.’
The Guardian, 26th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The High Court has ruled that Anwar Hussain was a victim of a ‘systematic failure’ after his Parole Board hearing was delayed.’
Daily Telegraph, 25th February 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Guardian has been granted unprecedented access to two prisons. In the second of two reports, Amelia Gentleman finds a supersize G4S-run jail grappling with a lack of profit, inexperienced staff and suicidal inmates.’
The Guardian, 23rd February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Guardian has been granted unprecedented access to two prisons to see the impact of funding cuts. In the first of two reports, Amelia Gentleman finds broken windows and bored inmates at the UK’s most overcrowded jail.’
The Guardian, 22nd February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Two further significant provisions of the Serious Crime Act 2015 have been brought into force. First, on 10 November 2015, section 79 created section 40CB of the Prison Act 1952, which provides for an offence of throwing any article or substance into a prison without authorisation.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd February 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Staff at an overcrowded, chaotic and violent prison did not always know where inmates were, an inspection has revealed.’
The Guardian, 17th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Clues that prisoners may take their own lives are too often missed, a watchdog has warned.’
The Guardian, 16th February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Treatment of pregnant women and female prisoners with babies to be reformed including tagging, problem-solving courts and alternative resettlement units.’
Ministry of Justice, 8th February 2016
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
‘David Cameron also wants to create six “reform prisons” whose governors would be given more freedom to implement reforms and control spending.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘When it comes to learning, nothing can compare to real-life experience – as a group of prisoners has proved in a ground-breaking new university course. Inmates at high-security Frankland Prison in County Durham have been studying alongside undergraduates from Durham University in a unique criminology programme. And it is the prisoners who are coming top of the class.’
The Independent, 25th January 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is compromising the independence of Britain’s prison inspectorate by demanding “day-to-day control” over expenditure and the power to veto spending on a weekly basis, MPs have been warned.’
The Independent, 20th January 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Prison Officers Association (POA) is to launch a judicial review against the Prison Service to speed up an outright ban on smoking in prisons.’
BBC News, 18th January 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A three-time killer has won £1,000 compensation from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) after a judge ruled that a guard squirted shampoo on his CDs during a prison transfer.’
The Independent, 3rd January 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Chief inspector of prisons tells Rye Hill in Warwickshire, a dedicated sex offender jail, that proportion of inmates over 50 increases risk of sexual grooming.’
The Guardian, 17th December 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Naeem v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWCA Civ 1264; [2015] WLR (D) 517
‘In a claim under section 19 of the Equality Act 2010 for indirect discrimination, based on a system of pay relating to length of service, once the claimant had shown that use of the particular provision, criterion or practice, namely the length of service criterion, had lead to a disparity in pay, it was permissible to consider the reason for the disparity complained of in the sense of the factors which had caused it to occur.’
WLR Daily, 9th December 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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