Prison staff shortages contribute to suicides, report says – BBC News
‘Understaffing in prisons in England and Wales could be a factor in suicides among inmates, a review has concluded.’
BBC News, 1st July 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: prisons
Jails and universities obliged to prevent radicalisation as new act becomes law – The Guardian
‘Local authorities, prisons, NHS trusts, schools, universities and further education institutions will this week be placed under a new statutory duty to prevent extremist radicalisation taking place within their walls.’
The Guardian, 29th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
High court challenge to government over services to Saudi prisons – The Guardian
‘The legality of a bid by the commercial arm of the Ministry of Justice to provide services for Saudi Arabia’s prisons is to be challenged in the high court.’
The Guardian, 29th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Conditions at Pentonville Prison so bad that staff can’t be bothered to mop up blood stains, report finds – The Independent
‘Conditions at Pentonville Prison have been criticised in a damning reports cataloguing blood stained cells, habitual violence and prisoners claiming to have easy access to drugs.
The Independent, 23rd June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Why is the MoJ so scared of allowing journalists into jails? – The Guardian
‘Of course prisons are by their nature closed institutions, but we know what goes on in our schools and hospitals. The media shouldn’t be shut out.’
The Guardian, 24th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Prison overcrowding understated for years, minister admits – The Guardian
‘Prison authorities have been underestimating the scale of overcrowding in jails in England and Wales for six years, the prisons minister has admitted.’
The Guardian, 11th June 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Surge in number of prisoners killing themselves in solitary confinement revealed by report – The Independent
‘The number of prisoners who take their own lives in solitary confinement has reached a nine-year high with the death toll including a man who hanged himself after officers refused to give him a book, a report has disclosed today.’
The Independent, 9th June 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Prison suicides: Warning over segregating at-risk inmates – BBC News
‘The suicides of eight prisoners have prompted a warning to prison governors about the risk of keeping “at-risk” inmates in segregation.’
BBC News, 9th June 0215
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Number of paedophiles in Britain will shock public, warns Deputy Children’s Commissioner for England – Daily Telegraph
‘Britain would need a rolling programme of prison building to house all its paedophiles if they were all to prosecuted, Sue Berelowitz has warned.’
Daily Telegraph, 31st June 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Prisons built to expel – OUP Blog
‘Every few months, a new report announces the breakdown of the British immigration system. In January, the Committee of Public Accounts issued a searing review of the Home Office’s migration policy. Three months earlier, the National Audit Office released a near-identical critique. Each publication invokes a now-familiar folk devil – the ‘foreign criminal’ – and demands better coordination between immigration enforcers and prison managers. Four times a year, we are told that governments that do not deport ‘foreign offenders’ are fundamentally unfit.’
OUP Blog, 26th May 2015
Source: http://blog.oup.com
Women in prison equals children without mothers, say justice groups – The Independent
‘12,000 women are sentenced each year in the UK – leaving about 20,000 children without mothers, according to Women in Prison’
The Independent, 16th May 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Operation Elveden: Ex-prison officer jailed for celebrity tips – BBC News
‘A former prison officer has been jailed for 10 months for selling “salacious gossip” about celebrity inmates to two national newspapers.’
BBC News, 15th May 2015
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Court of Appeal: female prisoners released to bail hostels are not discriminated against – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
‘The Court of Appeal recently grappled with Approved Premises for women in the case of Coll v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWCA Civ 328. The appellant is serving a mandatory life sentence for murder and brought the challenge on the basis that women have been the subject unlawful sex discrimination as a result of the AP regime. It was argued it was both direct and indirect discrimination. In the High Court, Justice Cranston upheld a separate submission that the Secretary of State (SSJ) was in breach of its public sector equality duty (S.149 Equality Act 2010). This finding was not appealed by the SSJ in the Court of Appeal.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 12th May 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Sam Hallam: The man who spent over seven years in jail for a murder he did not commit – The Independent
‘Freed after a miscarriage of justice, Sam Hallam tells Jon Robins about his psychological and legal struggle.’
Full story
The Independent, 9th May 2015
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Regina (Gilbert) v Secretary of State for Justice – WLR Daily
Regina (Gilbert) v Secretary of State for Justice: [2015] EWHC 927 (Admin); [2015] WLR (D) 202
‘The “absconder policy” in the Consolidated Interim Instructions of 11 August 2014, which precluded categories of prisoner from a transfer to open conditions save in exceptional circumstances, was incompatible with the Secretary of State’s directions to the Parole Board, issued in August 2004, which required phased release via open conditions to test whether a prisoner could be safely released into the community.’
WLR Daily, 1st April 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Neil Moore: Con artist jailed for escaping from prison by sending staff a fake email – The Independent
‘A con artist has been jailed after he made an “ingenious” escape from prison by sending staff a fake email saying he had been granted bail.’
The Independent, 20th April 2015
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Man died in prison after police wrongly took him from psychiatric unit, inquest finds – The Guardian
‘Mark Groombridge killed himself in Dovegate prison two weeks after he was removed from secure ward by probation officers and recalled to prison – a move that probably contributed to his death, jury finds.’
The Guardian, 17th April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Glen Parva criticised over Greg Revell death – BBC News
‘A coroner has criticised a young offenders’ institution for failing to identify the risk to an 18-year-old remand prisoner who hanged himself.’
BBC News, 18th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Regina (Coll) v Secretary of State for Justice – WLR Daily
Regina (Coll) v Secretary of State for Justice [2015] EWCA Civ 328; [2015] WLR (D) 157
‘In providing approved premises for women released from prison on licence, the Secretary of State for Justice had not discriminated directly under section 13 of the Equality Act 2010 or indirectly under section 19.’
WLR Daily, 31st March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Self-harm, drug-taking and sexual abuse more common in privately run prisons, new figures show – The Independent
‘Twenty-five years after the first private facility opened in Britain, private jails are performing far worse than government-operated facilities on at least a dozen counts. They account for a higher proportion of fighting, sexual assaults, drug-taking, self-harming, hunger strikes, and prisoner escapes than public-sector prisons, according to an analysis by The Independent on Sunday of new government statistics.’
The Independent, 5th April 2015
Source: www.independent.co.uk
