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...
Tuesday, 9 September 2025

More on Fire Risks in Prisons

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  Last night I finished watching the excellent if harrowing BBC series on the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster- a tragic and catastrophic case stu...
Thursday, 4 September 2025

Prison Fire Safety Delay ?

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  21,000 currently occupied prison places -almost one in four- do not meet fire safety standards, MPs have been told . In a letter sent in J...
Tuesday, 5 August 2025

Capacity Assessment

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  If the Independent Review of Prison Capacity was designed to remind the public how badly the last government managed the penal system, it...