Hundreds of prisoners have missed hospital appointments or family funerals due to “failures” in prisoner transport, the prison inspectorate has found. Interim chief inspector of prisons for Scotland, Stephen Sandham,
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Government moves to give refugees extra time in asylum accommodation before they are evicted should be made permanent, according to peers. The Home Office is trialling an extension to the
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Hydebank Wood Secure College and Women’s Prison has become the first unit in Northern Ireland to secure outcomes at the “highest achievable level”, two independent reports have found. However the
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Health services are at “breaking point” as incidents of self-harm have more than doubled at an immigration detention centre which feels “like a prison”, inspectors have warned. Fights and assaults
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The Home Office spent £15 million buying a derelict prison contaminated with asbestos amid political pressure to stop housing migrants in hotels, according to Whitehall’s spending watchdog. The Government department
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An asylum seeker who died after being run over on a motorway slip road was “upset” that a social worker did not believe he was a child, an inquest has
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Patients sectioned under the Mental Health Act will have more dignity and a say over their care under proposed reforms to what has been described as an “outdated” system. Among
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Hundreds of asylum seekers have been removed from an accommodation barge moored off the Dorset coast ahead of decisions about their future in the UK. Migrants are being transferred from
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A man has died in detention at Brook House immigration removal centre, Serco confirmed. The security company, which manages and operates the detention centre near Gatwick Airport in West Sussex,
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The authorities are “as ready as we can be” for the next stage of early inmate releases to ease the jail overcrowding crisis, a justice minister has said. Speaking in
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