‘Inmates at Liverpool prison are being kept in the worst living conditions inspectors have ever seen, according to a report seen by BBC News.’
BBC News, 18th December 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The justice secretary is to encourage prison governors to allow more inmates to “commute to work” by making greater use of their powers to grant prisoners temporary releases on licence.’
The Guardian, 18th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Online retailers should ban the sale of miniature mobile phones designed to be smuggled into prisons, the justice secretary has said.’
BBC News, 17th November 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Eight people have been jailed for taking part in a plot to smuggle cannabis and mobile phones into prisons in England and Scotland using drones.’
The Guardian, 13th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Former PM David Cameron once said that the thought of giving prisoners the vote made him feel “physically sick.” It was just one comment, but it’s reflective of just how emotive the debate over prisoner voting has been.’
Rights Info, 12th December 2017
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘Hundreds of high-risk prisoners, many of them sex offenders, are being released each year from Dartmoor prison without proper preparation, in a “shocking and unacceptable” public protection failing identified by the chief inspector of prisons.’
The Guardian, 12th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A prison officer who lost his freedom, home and livelihood after being jailed for exposing dangerous and life-threatening failures and cutbacks in the British prison system has spoken out over the “chilling effect” that his case has had on press freedoms in the UK.’
Garden Court Chambers, 23rd November 2017
Source: www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk
‘In a rare piece of European good news for the government this week, the 47-member Council of Europe has endorsed the UK’s action plan to resolve a simmering dispute over the ban on allowing prisoners to vote in elections.’
Law Society's Gazette, 7th December 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘An elite group of specially trained prison officers had to be deployed to jails in England and Wales 580 times last year, figures show.’
The Guardian, 6th December 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The justice secretary, David Lidington, has unveiled a series of measures that the government hopes will urgently tackle failing prisons in England and Wales. From Thursday, the chief inspector of prisons has been given new powers to alert the justice secretary directly of any urgent and severe problems he finds during a jail inspection.’
The Guardian, 30th November 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Prisons are struggling to cope with the soaring population of geriatric inmates, it has emerged.’
Daily Telegraph, 28th November 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘There is no clear link between prison suicides and overcrowding behind bars, an international study has suggested.’
BBC News, 25th November 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The killer of toddler James Bulger has reportedly been returned to prison after he was caught with child abuse images on his computer for the second time.’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd November 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A paedophile was brought to justice 35 years after abusing a six-year-old boy when he found himself in the same prison cell as his victim.’
Daily Telegraph, 21st November 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Young offender institutions are cruel and counterproductive. Cressida Dick’s call for ‘harsher’ sentencing reveals her ignorance of the evidence.’
The Guardian, 20th November 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Legal aid for prisoners will be restored for three key categories of claims after the Ministry of Justice abruptly abandoned what was expected to become a supreme court battle.’
The Guardian, 7th November 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A lawyer for prisoners seeking the vote has called leaked government plans to enfranchise some inmates a “cynical” attempt to do the minimum required.’
BBC News, 30th October 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A limited number of prisoners will be allowed to vote ending the UK’s total ban on prisoners voting, according to reports.’
Rights Info, 29th October 2017
Source: rightsinfo.org
‘The UK government is reportedly to scrap its blanket ban on prisoners being allowed to vote, 12 years after the European court of human rights ruled that it was unlawful.’
The Guardian, 29th October 2017
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An anonymous witness in the Pentonville prison murder trial pulled out of giving evidence when his cover was blown after less than an hour in court.’
BBC News, 25th October 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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