Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Parc Inspection Report should send Secure College Plans to the Drawing Board

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  The champagne corks must be popping at the headquarters of G4S. After two “anni horribili”, the company can bask in the glow of a positiv...
Thursday, 21 August 2014

Chris Grayling Must Accept Whats Happening in Prisons

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                  One imagines the election can’t come quickly enough for Chris Grayling. Whatever the outcome, he’ll be freed from respons...
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Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Reducing Prisoners not Staff the only Answer to Prison Crisis

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Another week another deeply disturbing report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons . Actually Nick Hardwick concludes that the Isis Young O...
Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Young Offender Institutions and Inspections: Models that Do Not Work?

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Prisoners having to pay for their beds – either to other prisoners or corrupt officials is not uncommon in many countries I’ve visited wher...
Friday, 1 August 2014

We need a Royal Commission on Prisons

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      The Sun newspaper is not widely known for supporting prison reform. More than ten years ago it sent a removals van to the Royal Courts...
Thursday, 24 July 2014

Ranby Report shows need for Improvement in Inspection as well as Prisons

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A month after his disturbing assessment of the state of the prison system was cavalierly dismissed by Chris Grayling, Chief Inspector Nick H...
Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Crowding Out the Truth.

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Today’s publication of the latest World Pre-Trial Imprisonment List from the International Centre for Prison Studies puts UK jail problems...