More than 100 relatives of people who have died after contact with the police in the UK since 1971 have joined plans for a class action lawsuit in pursuit of compensation and justice. The plan for group legal action was announced at the People’s Tribunal on Police Killings, a two-day event in which bereaved families […]
A prison has been told to review its training after a young inmate killed himself just 48 hours after being locked up. Simon Faherty was remanded in custody to HMP Elmley in Eastchurch, Sheppey, in November 2023, after being charged with possession of Class B drugs, criminal damage, affray and possession of an offensive weapon. […]
The Chair of the Welsh Affairs Committee has written to the leadership of Parc prison in Bridgend, raising concerns about reports that prison officers sent messages joking about violence towards prisoners. Leaked messages seen by the PA news agency, show one staff member at HMP Parc, a privately-run prison, suggesting they will provoke an inmate […]
Head of Scottish prisons says service should not be immune from prosecution Lawyer Aamer Anwar has called for a meeting with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to push for the lifting of Crown immunity. The head of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has said Crown immunity for the prison service should be abolished, according […]
Leaked messages show prison staff at a Welsh prison laughing at violent encounters with inmates and making fun of self-harm incidents. In them, one staff member at privately run HMP Parc in Bridgend responded to a complaint about an inmate and said: “The prisoners need to be broken mentally and physically.” It is understood the […]
An Inquest at Pontypridd coroner’s court has shed new light on the fatal events that led to the death of 25‑year‑old Lewis Rhys Thomas Petryzyn at HMP Parc on April 15, 2022. The court heard how the young inmate, who struggled with sleep due to a lack of proper medication, turned to the psychoactive substance […]
An inquest has opened into the death of a 38-year-old woman who died whilst in custody. Stephanie Brennan was found in her cell at HMP Styal on Saturday, March 8, this year, with a ligature around her neck. A hearing into the case was held at Cheshire Coroner’s Court in Warrington on Wednesday. First aid […]
A former prisoner who died a day after being released should have been given a drug overdose kit, an investigation has found. Michael Fox, 43, died of drug poisoning on 15 March 2022, the day after his release from HMP Humber. A report by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, who investigate the deaths of prisoners […]
A road rage attacker died in prison from drug toxicity, the prison ombudsman has announced. Max Marchant died at HMP The Mount prison, on the outskirts of Bovingdon, from a spice-like synthetic cannabinoid toxicity, aged 26 on July 25 2022, but his inquest has just been held. The prison ombudsman did not find any evidence […]
An ombudsman has raised concerns over the way checks on prisoners are carried out at a privately-run jail after an inmate hanged himself in his cell. Ashley Ferrie died at HMP Fosse Way, in Glen Parva, Leicestershire on 13 February 2024. The 35-year-old, from Coventry, was the first prisoner to die at the Category C […]
Four more prisoners serving Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPP) have taken their own lives in Britain’s prisons. The total number of self-inflicted IPP deaths is now 94. Experts have described the crisis as a “scandal that is being hidden in plain sight” and an “industrial-scale miscarriage of justice”, as prisoners trapped under abolished Imprisonment […]
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