Concerns have been raised about the “humane treatment” of transgender inmates living as women in a men’s prison. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Nottingham (pictured) raised the matter
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Concerns have been raised about poor rehabilitation work at a prison predominantly holding sex offenders amid high numbers of inmates maintaining their innocence. Most of the prisoners at HMP Isle
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A Home Office-chartered deportation flight is lacking “common decency” towards detainees who were restrained for up to 14 hours and refused privacy while using a toilet, an inspection has warned.
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The Home Office has failed in a bid to challenge a High Court ruling over the terms of an investigation into alleged abuse at a scandal-hit immigration detention centre. Two
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Young offenders institutions are failing to curb re-offending by child criminals once they are released, according to a report. Children are being let down because the centres are “largely failing”
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The Government has rejected calls for a time limit on immigration detention as an MP said Home Office detention is “arbitrary” and “unfair”. Harriet Harman, chairwoman of the Human Rights
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Stalking victims are consistently being failed because of a “widespread failure to recognise” it, the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales has said. Dame Vera Baird (pictured) said those at
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A High Court judge has voiced concern after a “slight” and “highly-disturbed” epileptic 11-year-old boy was handcuffed and placed in leg restraints by police for an “extended period”. Mr Justice
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Attacks on prison staff rose 15% in a year, while self-harm incidents in jails reached a new record level, official figures show. Assaults behind bars hit a new high of
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Children will not be sent to a high-profile young offender institution after the country’s most senior prisons inspector demanded the Government take immediate action over an “extraordinary” plunge in safety.
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