Use this service to create barcodes and addresses to display in your: legal correspondence (Rule 39 mail) if you’re the legal adviser of the recipient confidential access mail if your organisation or role is listed in the authorised communications, controls and interception policy framework Each barcode is unique and confirms to prison mailroom staff that […]
A secure way of verifying legal correspondence sent into prisons must be developed urgently to deal with the problem of drugs sprayed onto fake letters, MPs say today. In its report, Tackling the drugs crisis in our prisons, the Commons Justice Committee describes the trade and use of illicit drugs in our prisons as ‘endemic’. […]
From 20 January changes to prison rules are being implemented to include official video call meetings. Prison Rules have been updated to include official meetings by video. This means that prison staff no longer need to seek consent to intermittently observe video call participants from a screen in the control room. This is no different […]
New regulations on Prisoner/Solicitor Communications come into force today with amendments to the Prison Rules and the Young Offender Institution Rules – providing Governors with greater powers of interception. Our Enhanced and Corporate members can now download consolidated copies of the amended Rules at the link below. Access Here >> Whoops! You need enhanced membership […]
Two people have been jailed for plotting to flood UK prisons with spice disguised in solicitors’ letters. Shay Bradshaw and Rachael Stewart, along with her son Kian Stewart, sent the drugs between July 2017 and May 2020, Lincoln Crown Court heard. All three pleaded guilty to conspiracy to convey List A articles into prisons and […]