A convicted murderer who saved the lives of Fishmongers’ Hall terror victims will receive a bravery award after being put forward on the Queen’s final Civilian Gallantry List. Steven Gallant is among four men who are being honoured for their bravery by putting themselves in danger to save people’s lives during the 2019 terror attack. […]
The Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Wayland have published their 2021/2022 annual report in which they said: Main areas for development TO THE MINISTER First, throughout this report we have set out our views on the failure of the Prison Service to respond adequately to the prison’s desperate needs for a greatly improved physical infrastructure. […]
Inspectors have conducted an Independent Review of Progress inspection at HMYOI Parc and published their report today. Type of inspection: Independent review of progress Dates of inspection: 23-31 January 2023 Summary of findings: Parc has many strengths and this remained a positive inspection, with children continuing to be well cared for. However, there was too little improvement in […]
Inspectors have conducted an Independent Review of Progress inspection at HMP The Mount and published their report today. Type of inspection: Independent review of progress Dates of inspection: 6-8 February 2023 Summary of findings: Key weaknesses in purposeful activity and rehabilitation and release planning had not been addressed. Prisoners were not being given constructive activities to do, and […]
HMP Bedford has been locked down and a full-scale search is underway following intelligence that a firearm had been smuggled into the jail potentially for a breakout the Prison Service has confirmed. Officers mounted intensive search of cells at the prison over the weekend after receiving what sources described as “credible” intelligence of a weapon […]
The second of three former prison officers sentenced in the fatal beating of a prisoner received a 20-year prison term yesterday, the same as a co-conspirator, despite a judge’s declaration he could have stopped the attack as the senior officer. U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough sentenced Todd Sheffler, a 54-year-old former correctional lieutenant, on two […]
A new inmate is facing indefinite segregation over “organic material” detected by X-ray body scanners introduced in Northern Ireland’s prisons, the High Court has been told. Sean Paul O’Halloran claims the technology being used to combat illegal contraband has put him in an impossible situation – because he is concealing nothing. The 30-year-old west Belfast […]
Scotland Yard is institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic and the public is being let down by a force that no longer has a functioning neighbourhood policing service, a damning report concludes. In an excoriating review, which echoes the 1999 Macpherson report into the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence, Baroness Casey says Britain’s biggest […]
Following our Freedom of Information Request the Ministry of Justice has disclosed the NOMS/HMPPS Staff Misconduct Statistics 2014 to 2022. These show, among other things, that in the last three years alone (2019/2020 to 2021/2022), 4,229 prison staff faced a total of 5,310 disciplinary charges – and over 700 prison staff were dismissed during this […]
Update: HMPPS Response 22nd March 2023 >> Divisions between black prisoners and white prison staff are entrenched throughout the prison service, and black prison staff report very negative experiences at work. But both of these problems could be tackled through taking a more creative approach focused on building mutual trust and respect. This is one […]
The Chief Inspector of Prisons said he is ‘extremely concerned’ by staffing levels at jails in England and Wales, with some forced into pandemic-style lockdowns as a result. Charlie Taylor told MPs yesterday inmates were effectively being ‘warehoused’ with very little time out of their cells, meaning they were ill-equipped for civilian life upon release. […]
Birmingham Youth Offending Service (YJS) has received an overall rating of ‘Requires Improvement’ following an inspection by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation. Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell said: “We last inspected Birmingham Youth Offending Service in 2020, also awarding a rating of ‘Requires improvement’. “Although our rating remains the same, we have seen positive […]