Wednesday, 17 December 2025

Fire Alert

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  Surprising perhaps given the pressure on prisons that today’s alert to the Lord Chancellor about the appalling outcomes at HMP Swaleside ...
Thursday, 4 December 2025

Courting Trouble

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  The prison population projections out today are produced to aid policy development, capacity planning and resource allocation within the ...
Friday, 14 November 2025

Which Way for Youth Custody?

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  Radical stuff from the Childrens Commissioner in her Longford Lecture this week- urging that Young Offender Institutions are closed now, ...
Sunday, 9 November 2025

More Questions than Answers on Fire Safety in Prisons

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  Prison fires and subsequent injuries remain of serious concern according to the recently published 2024-25 Annual Report of the Crown Prem...
Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Beyond the Doors ? Whats happening with the Secure School.

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    Up to £6 million is needed to fix 184 faulty doors at the Oasis Restore Secure School (ORSS) which closed last month, MPs have been told...
Friday, 12 September 2025

Young Adults in Custody- Yet Another Challenge for Prisons

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   Failings in secure institutions for children are all too familiar, but a report out today paints an equally disturbing picture of life i...
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Thursday, 11 September 2025

(A bit) More on the Secure School

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  We learned last month t hat the Oasis Restore Secure School was to close temporarily following a monitoring visit by Ofsted which raised c...