Simon Israel
Violence and disorder rising in prisons
The safety of prisons in England and Wales is getting worse, with deaths, self-harm, violence and disorder continuing to rise.
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Conditions inside Brazil’s prisons
A series of riots in jails across Brazil in recent months have left dozens of prisoners dead. The incidents, in a country with the third largest prison population in the world, have raised serious questions about conditions and staffing in Brazil’s jails.
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The crisis in women’s prisons
As the crisis in our jails deepens – a mother breaks her silence for the first time to talk about how prison failed to prevent her mentally ill daughter from taking her own life.
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Justice Secretary ‘should apologise’ for prisons
A former prisons boss has called on the Justice Secretary to apologise for the prison system being brought to the brink of collapse.
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Prisons won’t be fixed in ‘weeks or even months’
The Justice Secretary Liz Truss has admitted the problems in English jails won’t be fixed “in weeks, or even months”, as she made a statement in the Commons about the Birmingham prison riot.
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‘Prisons are awash with drugs of all types’
There is a growing crisis in British prisons with violence, self-harm and prisoner suicide on the rise. Blogger “Alex Cavendish”, who served time in six different prisons, believes he knows why.
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Simon Israel
Damning report into UK prisons highlights rise in violence
Week after week there seems to be yet another damning report on the state of this country’s prisons. Today it is the Serco privately run Doncaster Prison.
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Are Britain’s prisons reaching breaking point?
Prison officers tell Channel 4 News security in British jails is now a major issue – to the extent that one convicted murderer is driving prisoners unsupervised from a prison to appointments and work.
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Hunger strike puts California’s prisons in the spotlight
Hundreds of Californian inmates are on hunger strike more than two weeks into a mass protest over solitary confinement. And what happens in California’s prisons has repercussions elsewhere.
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Prisons ordered to destroy halal pies and pasties
The Ministry of Justice orders all halal products from one unnamed prison supplier be destroyed after tests – prompted by the recent horse meat scandal – found some contained non-halal meat.
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Britain’s largest ever jail planned, six prisons to close
A prison holding more than 2,000 inmates, which would be Britain’s largest, could open under a plan that would see six existing prisons in England close.
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Inside Burma’s open prisons
A humanitarian crisis may be unfolding among Burma’s Rohingya Muslim minority, but with reporting restrictions in Rakhine State, little more is known. Asia correspondent John Sparks has been there.
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Nearly two-thirds of prisons ‘overcrowded’
Nearly two thirds of prisons in England and Wales are operating at an overcrowded level, reformers say.
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FactCheck: Will prisons in England and Wales burst at the seams?
“The powder-keg potential of the situation is clear to voices from inside the prison system – rapidly rising numbers of new inmates, many of them vulnerable first-timers thrown in with serving prisoners, some members of street gangs whose violent rivalries will continue on the inside.”
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Rioters and looters fill prisons
The prison population has hit record levels as increasing numbers of people are jailed over last week’s riots. As the first appeals are being heard, a woman has had her prison sentence overturned.
