Converse – For 17 years the largest circulation national monthly Newspaper for the Prisons of England and Wales

Converse: 40-pages, circa 50K copies, delivered in print to prisons every month – also available digitally in public & private prisons on in-cell technology, and downloaded in 86 prisons on 2,500 inmate offline laptops too

Latest edition: March 2024

(Next edition 4th April 2024
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In the 40 packed pages of our March 2024 edition we lead by looking at the momentous policy change by the new Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Adrian Usher in relation to fatal incident investigations – that is deaths in prison custody or immediately after release from it.

This now means that, for the first time, the public are told who has died while in Prison Custody, when and where it happened, and within seven days of the death.

No other Ombudsman has treated the public with respect like this – despite the fact that the public have always been told of all deaths in Police Custody (by the IOPC who investigate police station deaths) once the Next of Kin have been informed.

This month we also cover

  • Prison nurse banned from the medical profession
  • Personal injury claims in prisons from Express Solicitors
  • The Certificate of Competency in Prison Law 2024/25 open for enrolment
  • All you need to know about IPCI
  • Belmarsh prison officer jailed for false Cell-Confession
  • Calls to end IPP nightmare of indefinite detention
  • PPO investigation into inmate abuse at Medomsley
  • Devastating report lays bare police failings
  • Joint Enterprise and the case for reform
  • Criminal justice system and ongoing problems with recruitment and retention
  • Brighton and East Sussex probation ‘requires improvement’
  • Dartmoor prison inmates moved over radon gas levels
  • Practical parole advice from public law solicitor Dean Kingham
  • Number of whole lifers increases to 72
  • Reece Thomas Watson fighting your corner all the way
  • Cookham Wood serious concerns over safety and decency for children
  • Northumberland visitor jailed for cocaine smuggling
  • Account freezing and account forfeiture orders POCA
  • Probation officer jailed for trying to take drugs and phones into prison
  • New court approach helping offenders get off drugs
  • Carrington’s solicitors officially the largest prison law practice in the country
  • Prison Ombudsman’s List of Deaths in Custody February 2024
  • IMB Chelmsford annual report published
  • Readers letters
  • Details of unpublished Prison Service regulations
  • In force Prison Service Instructions, Orders and Policy Frameworks
  • Prison officer immunity over death ‘was incorrect’
  • IMB Hatfield annual report published
  • Get the best personal injury team on your side with Express solicitors
  • Wymott prison, second critical healthcare report published
  • Morton Hall positive respectful culture but worrying lack of resettlement
  • Berwyn prison custodial manager convicted of prisoner assault
  • CCRC Awareness of Neurodiversity
  • Prison officer spared jail for fraudulently doctoring the prison records
  • Post office admits investigators presumed guilt not innocence
  • Mental health transfers the scandal of delay
  • Spotlight on HM Prison Peterborough
  • Lowdham Grange report reveals more than 120 staff resigned
  • New law to stop offenders changing their name in secret

And lots more too….

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