By Mark Leech FRSA Editor: The Prisons Handbook So, as Baroness Casey tells us, the Metropolitan Police is ‘institutionally racist, sexist and broken’ – yes, well I suspect that many people already knew that; my question is whether the Prison Service is any different? Prison Service Misconduct Statistics 2014-2022 just released to me show that in […]
The Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Foston Hall have published their 2021/2022 annual report in which they said: Main areas for development TO THE MINISTER • Women with mental health issues and complex needs, including substance misuse, who would be better treated in the health rather than the criminal justice system continue to be sent […]
Ben Plaistow was a loyal and dedicated Prison Officer of ten years unblemished service – who will now never work again. Ben was attacked, assaulted, humiliated, forced to disclose his sexual orientation, was belittled, had fingernails scratched down his face, water sprayed into it, was slapped, pushed across a table and had his work bag […]
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Update: Jailed for three years A former prison officer has been warned she faces jail after admitting to smuggling in cannabis for an inmate she was having an inappropriate relationship with. Joanne Hunter pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office over an illicit relationship with a prisoner at HMP Forest Bank in […]
A man has been jailed for assault, leaving a prison officer with a ‘dislocated elbow’ at HMP Berwyn. Adam Smith, 31, of NFA in Rhyl, appeared before Mold Crown Court yesterday, Thursday, March 23. He previously pleaded not guilty to a charge of assaulting a person thereby occasioning actual bodily harm at a plea and […]
Mark Icke, the Governing Governor of HMP Swaleside, has been ordered to appear in court in Oxford to explain to a judge why one of his prisoners failed yet again to appear at court – or risk being slung into his own jail for contempt. Judge Michael Gledhill KC told barristers on Wednesday (March 22) […]
PART ONE: 22ND FEBRUARY 2023 >> PART TWO: 24TH MARCH 2023 >> PART 1 – PAROLE: THE PLOT THICKENS “To be clear, you are working to the current policy, but with a more precautionary approach.” Note sent internally to prison staff responsible for considering open recommendations made by the Parole Board On the central issue of what […]
The scandal surrounding taxpayers’ money lost to pandemic fraudsters has deepened as it emerged that the government has recovered only 1 per cent of grant money wrongly paid out to companies during the Covid-19 crisis. The National Audit Office (NAO) said that of the £1.1 billion in state business grants lost to fraud or error, […]
Hundreds more prisoners will leave jail with the literacy skills needed to find work on release thanks to a new scheme aimed at transforming reading behind bars while cutting crime. Two charities have been awarded £1.8 million to pilot new reading and writing programmes over 2 years – getting more offenders into class and boosting […]
Public drug use, fly-tipping and low-level crimes such as graffiti are to be targeted with a strategy of “hotspot” policing and “short and sharp” punishments under plans for a crackdown on antisocial behaviour to be announced in April. To address the rise in nuisance crime, ministers will unveil “tougher” enforcement powers that could mean those […]
The Criminal Justice Chief Inspectors’ Group (CJCIG) has finalised its business plan. This sets out the programme of inspections of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) for 2023-25 in which two or more of the inspectorates will be working together. Our joint programme includes a core of rolling inspections which cover every area in England and […]