Social media companies have been warned they must no longer be “passive hosts” in the fight to tackle surging levels of violence. Ministers told firms that the status quo “cannot
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A court case brought against four staff accused of threatening and assaulting children at a scandal-hit G4S-run youth jail has collapsed. Team leaders Anthony Dance, 28, Gareth Evans, 27, Matthew
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A youth jail manager has criticised the BBC, claiming he is “on the verge of bankruptcy” after being sacked when allegations of abuse at a scandal-hit G4S-run youth jail surfaced
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A watchdog report found there were 554 self-harm incidents at Brinsford young offenders institution between May and October last year. A small number of individuals accounted for multiple incidents. Publishing
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Staff at Maghaberry Prison have saved the lives of 11 vulnerable prisoners. Inspectors have expressed concern about the care of such inmates in the past and said plans for some
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Female prisoners – often anguished at being parted from their children – are more likely to commit acts of self-harm than their male counterparts, according to a University of Huddersfield
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A “vulnerable” 18-year-old man who killed himself in a prison cell could have been saved if staff had promptly responded to an emergency alarm, a report has found. Lithuanian national
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Probation services responsible for supervising thousands of offenders are failing to meet them often enough, a report has warned. Enforcement of non-custodial sentences by private community rehabilitation companies (CRCs) was
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A 16-year-old girl who stabbed a school welfare officer, leaving her seriously injured, has been given a seven-year custodial sentence by a judge who said she would probably have killed
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A new electronic monitoring scheme for supervising offenders has been condemned by MPs as a “catastrophic” waste of taxpayers’ money. In a scathing critique, the Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
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