Search results for ‘prisons’
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Prisons Minister Rory Stewart: [Theresa May’s] lines on the withdrawal agreement are also the European Union’s red lines.”
Prisons Minister Rory Stewart discusses Brexit.
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Prisons Minister Rory Stewart on Speaker John Bercow: ‘What he did was pretty strange and unprecedented’
Prisons Minister Rory Stewart has been a doughty defender of Theresa May’s deal in the past weeks.
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UAE accused of torture and running secret prisons
The role played by UAE in the Yemen conflict has gone largely unnoticed. Yet the country stands accused of conducting a dirty war on the ground. We speak to a former prisoner who accuses the UAE of running secret prisons and subjecting hundreds of people to torture.
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Psycho-active drug abuse ‘completely out of control’ in Britain’s prisons
The abuse of psycho-active drugs in prisons across England and Wales is “completely out of control”, according to the prisons watchdog. In her annual report, Elizabeth Moody warned that jails were struggling to cope with the consequences – including “all too often, death”. She said there was an urgent need for a national strategy to…
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Prisons chief servant asked to stand down amid growing crisis
In the midst of the growing crisis in prisons across England and Wales – the civil servant in charge has been asked to stand down.
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Mark Fairhurst, POA: ‘75% of prisons are unsafe’
Lord Falconer, who served in Tony Blair’s cabinet until being appointed the country’s first justice secretary in 2007, Mark Fairhurst, national chairman of the Prisoners Officers’ Association, and Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, discuss the state of prisons.
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Alex Hewson, Prison Reform Trust: ‘Our prisons system is crying out for stability’
Alex Hewson, from the Prison Reform Trust. discusses Rory Stewart’s pledge to resign if violence in jails doesn’t fall.
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Prisons Minister Rory Stewart: ‘If I fail, I will resign’
Prisons Minister Rory Stewart discusses the government’s plans to combat drugs use and violence in jails.
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Government to build residential centres instead of prisons for female inmates
Most women behind bars have committed non-violent offences, and many have experienced abusive relationships or mental health issues. Campaigners have long railed against the “futility” of prison for such women, and today the government said instead of planned new prisons it will now build five residential centres.
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Justice Minister Edward Argar on women’s prisons: ‘We believe residential centres are right way to go’
It’s been over a decade since a report into deaths at womens’ prisons, commissioned by Labour, was published. One of its recomendations was that big prisons, which it described as “social dustbins”, should be “largely done away with”. Justice Minister Edward Argar is asked why it has taken successive governments so long to act.
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Prison violence has ‘risen inexorably’ since austerity cuts, says Chief Inspector of Prisons
The Chief Inspector of Prisons has demanded that the Government take urgent action to tackle conditions at Exeter prison. Peter Clarke has given the Justice Secretary 28 days to respond with a plan to tackle rising levels of violence and self harm at the Category B jail, which has seen 5 self-inflicted deaths in the…
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Prisons Minister Rory Stewart: ‘I will be judged on whether I can demonstrate I can turn round a prison like Nottingham’
Prisons Minister Rory Stewart discusses the report on Nottingham Prison.
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Prisons Minister says time to ‘get back to basics’ after damning inspections
After damning reports on the conditions in prisons across England, the newly appointed Prisons Minister has conceded a need to get “back to basics” to transform the Prison Service in the next five to ten years. MPs also heard from the governor of Liverpool Prison, who said she’d had to get more prisoners inoculated against…
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Chief Inspector of prisons: jail violence increasing
The chief inspector of prisons has told Channel 4 News that despite the recruitment of hundreds more prison officers, violence in jails is increasing, His report on one prison in Dorset found the drug spice was now cheaper than cigarettes and fuelling very high levels of violence. Portland prison’s Independent Monitoring Board today said it…
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Are Britain’s prisons a ‘disaster waiting to happen’?
Last month saw a spate of prison riots, with violence at jails in Hertfordshire and Worcestershire. Some commentators claimed the unrest was “a disaster waiting to happen”. But what’s really going on inside Briton’s prisons? And are prison officers facing an uphill battle to stay in control?