“Two rows of individual ‘bleak cages’ are being used as a grim exercise yard for segregated inmates at one of the UK’s top security jails, the chief inspector of prisons has disclosed.”
The Guardian, 10th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A serving prisoner has lost a high court challenge to the continued practice of slopping out that could have forced the government to spend millions on upgrading old jails in England and Wales. Roger Gleaves, 77, claimed that having to use a bucket as a toilet in his cell at HMP Albany, on the Isle of Wight, was so degrading it amounted to a breach of his human rights.”
The Guardian, 19th December 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A report into the death of a prisoner has suggested he was moved from a jail – where he felt safe – because an inspection was due to take place.”
BBC News, 10th December 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Inmates are being left to languish in Britain’s crowded prisons because no effort is being made to address the problems that put them there, the Chief Inspector of Prisons has told The Independent.”
The Independent, 24th November 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Serious injuries or other life-threatening warning signs have been detected on 285 occasions when children have been physically restrained in privately run jails over the past five years, according to Ministry of Justice figures.”
The Guardian, 22nd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Under rule 53(1) of the Prison Rules 1999 prison authorities were allowed a full 48 hours from discovery of an offence against discipline to lay a charge against a prisoner, and longer where there were exceptional circumstances making it impossible to lay the charge within that time.”
WLR Daily, 17th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A rapist who had to use a bucket as a toilet at an Isle of Wight prison has claimed a breach of his human rights.”
BBC News, 17th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An inmate who beat a sex offender to death in prison has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years after being convicted of murder.”
BBC News, 15th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men convicted of murdering a man outside a prison in south London have been jailed for life.”
BBC News, 10th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A man serving life for three murders has been cleared over a prison attack in which he stabbed three guards.”
BBC News, 9th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“National parliaments not European judges should decide whether prisoners are entitled to the vote, the attorney general has told the human rights court in Strasbourg.”
The Guardian, 2nd November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“In his speech earlier this week the Attorney General announced that he would appear in person before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in two weeks’ time, when it hears Scoppola v Italy No2, a case concerning prisoner voting. The United Kingdom is due to intervene in this case, for reasons that readers of this blog will be fully aware of.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 27th October 2011
Source: http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
“A senior judge yesterday blamed a ‘relentless’ press campaign on soft sentencing for prisons now being full.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Too many women are still serving short-prison sentences, often for breaching community orders for crimes that do not themselves carry a prison sentence, according to criminal justice watchdogs. A joint report by the chief inspectors of prisons, probation and the Crown Prosecution Service, published on Thursday, says the size of female prison population – 4,243 in England and Wales – is still a matter of concern.”
The Guardian, 13th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Prisoners should carry out work while in jail as part of the process of tackling the growing ‘feral underclass’, Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said today.”
The Independent, 4th October 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Prison Service is fighting a legal case that could force the government to spend millions of pounds upgrading old jails.”
The Guardian, 26th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Up to £1million a year is to be seized from prisoners’ pay packets and used to fund victim support services, the Ministry of Justice announced today.”
Ministry of Justice, 26th September 2011
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“Almost 100 foreign prisoners have been released in the last two years when they should have first being assessed for removal, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, revealed.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th September 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“After another night on call at Hastings police station, duty lawyer Kim Evans struggles to retain her Buddhist calm.”
The Guardian, 7th September 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Fears have been raised that plans to house only sex offenders in all three prisons on the Isle of Wight could damage the island’s image.”
BBC News, 26th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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