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: Prisons / Offenders
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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Moors murderer Ian Brady ‘had access to vulnerable teenagers in jail’, files reveal
Moors murderer Ian Brady came in contact with vulnerable borstal boys for more than five years at Wormwood Scrubs prison, files reportedly show. The child killer was even allowed to
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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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Minister rejects campaigners’ calls to end ‘unsafe’ imprisonment of children
A minister has rejected campaigners’ calls to end the practice of detaining children in prison settings. During a debate on child imprisonment, justice minister Edward Argar told MPs the Government
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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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Engage: Better alternatives to jail for young women says charity chief
The head of one of the country’s leading youth support charity’s has backed calls to keep more offending young women out of jail. The issue was raised recently by Karyn
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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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