Prisoner died from heat stroke while in court cell after air-conditioning failed
“Serious failings” must be addressed after a man died from heat stroke after being held in a police van and a stuffy court cell on one of the hottest days
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Tag: Custodial Care
Inspection finds increase in violence, self-harm and drug use at HMP Lewes
Violence, self-harm and drug use is on the rise at a prison, inspectors warned. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Lewes, East Sussex, raised the concerns when it published
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Inspector warns work to rehabilitate young offenders suffering under budget cuts
Work to rehabilitate child criminals in the West Midlands is suffering under budget cuts and could be putting the public at risk, according to inspectors. HM Inspectorate of Probation rated
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Gwent Police must ‘immediately’ overhaul its child custody procedures
A police force has been told to immediately review its policy on keeping children in custody after concerns were raised by inspectors. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire &
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Police watchdog launches probe after mentally ill man tasered in London
The police watchdog has launched an investigation after a mentally ill man who stabbed himself was tasered. Officers from the Metropolitan Police were called to an attempted break-in at a
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Inmates handed life sentences for ‘ferocious’ murder of vulnerable fellow prisoner
Three inmates have been handed life sentences for killing a fellow prisoner in “cold blood” and trying to cut his head off. Stephen Boorman, 34, Jibreel Raheem, 27, and James
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Campaigners call for end to ‘fundamentally unsafe’ incarceration of children
Campaigners have called for an end to detaining children in prisons, calling the practice “fundamentally unsafe”. The calls from The Howard League for Penal Reform come after the latest Her
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‘Addiction to imprisonment’ sees more sent to jail than anywhere else in western Europe
More people are being sent to prison in England and Wales every year than anywhere else in western Europe, figures branded as “shameful” have suggested. The rate of people being
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Troubled jail makes ‘reasonable progress’ in tackling violence, drug use and squalor
A review of standards at Birmingham’s Winson Green prison has questioned an “inexplicable” failure to secure funding for scanners to prevent drugs being smuggled into the jail. A progress report
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Majority of prison staff feel unsafe with one in four the victim of violence
One in four staff working in prisons has been the victim of physical violence in the last year, new research suggests. A study by a coalition of nine trade unions
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