Prison News | UK
Recent events, organized by category (below) or region/state (right), concerning the corrections industry in UK. Comments, suggestions and contributions (below) appreciated.
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Education & Rehabilitation
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Youths see jail life first-hand
A project in Devon to try to teach youngsters about the reality of life behind bars is proving a success.
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BBC News,
Monday, October 16, 2006
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Keep an eye on prison life
FOUR new members have joined the Independent Monitoring Board at Thorn Cross Young Offenders Institute - and more are needed....
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NewsQuest Media,
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty
No recent news for UK in this category.
Gangs in Prison
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Muslim prison gangs bullying UK inmates to convert to Islam
Britain�s Prison Officers Association (POA) has revealed that increasing numbers of jail inmates are being bullied into converting to Islam....
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Asian News International,
Monday, October 21, 2013
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Inside the twisted mind of a monster
A CHILL ran down my spine the moment the TV flickered on and I came face to face with one of Britain...
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The Daily Express,
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
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Jail is like a holiday camp for drugs lord
A DRUGS kingpin who lived a life of luxury on the proceeds of his smuggling empire was nicknamed Butlin because he thought Spanish prison life was like a holiday camp, a court heard today...
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The Daily Express,
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Intelligent Justice: Balancing the Effects of Community Sentences and Custody
While this report addresses the problems with the impact of austerity on the prison system in the United Kingdom, it offers a valuable source of information on how to combat budget cuts in correctional spending. This paper revisits the much argued question about the relative merits of prison and community sentences. We decided to write it out of a sense that debate has become trapped in an unproductive Punch and Judy fight about which of the two sentences works better. To anticipate our conclusions, assessed in narrow instrumental terms the arguments are more finely balanced than either side usually recognise. However, pro- and anti-prison ca...
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National Institute of Corrections,
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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20% of prisoners on protection over prison gang threats
ONE fifth of the prison population is now on protection due to the gang culture in the prison system....
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Irish Examiner,
Saturday, May 7, 2011
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Prisons are the scandal: The route to a lower crime rate and safer communities is not via mass incarceration
Why do our prisons remain immune from scandal? I don't mean that scandals don't happen, but that they don't seem to attract attention ...
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The Guardian,
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Call to cut UK prison population
5,000 inmates should be in mental health units while another 5,000 should be in drug rehab centres......
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BBC News,
Thursday, May 8, 2008
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Youths see jail life first-hand
A project in Devon to try to teach youngsters about the reality of life behind bars is proving a success.
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BBC News,
Monday, October 16, 2006
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Keep an eye on prison life
FOUR new members have joined the Independent Monitoring Board at Thorn Cross Young Offenders Institute - and more are needed....
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NewsQuest Media,
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Health & Medical Treatment
No recent news for UK in this category.
Prison Classification, Placement, & Release
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Intelligent Justice: Balancing the Effects of Community Sentences and Custody
While this report addresses the problems with the impact of austerity on the prison system in the United Kingdom, it offers a valuable source of information on how to combat budget cuts in correctional spending. This paper revisits the much argued question about the relative merits of prison and community sentences. We decided to write it out of a sense that debate has become trapped in an unproductive Punch and Judy fight about which of the two sentences works better. To anticipate our conclusions, assessed in narrow instrumental terms the arguments are more finely balanced than either side usually recognise. However, pro- and anti-prison ca...
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National Institute of Corrections,
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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Call to cut UK prison population
5,000 inmates should be in mental health units while another 5,000 should be in drug rehab centres......
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BBC News,
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Prison Conditions & Corruption
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Britain on verge of jail overcrowding crisis
Britain is on the verge of its worst prison overcrowding crisis since 2008, a media report said Sunday.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has quietly sanctioned emergency measures, after it emerged that there were only 265 free spaces left out of an 85,800 capacity across England and Wales prison estate....
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Business Standard,
Sunday, March 16, 2014
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Prisons are the scandal: The route to a lower crime rate and safer communities is not via mass incarceration
Why do our prisons remain immune from scandal? I don't mean that scandals don't happen, but that they don't seem to attract attention ...
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The Guardian,
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Prison Life & Culture
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From crimes of passion to evil sadism: The history of Britain's female serial killers
FROM Ada Chard Williams, hanged in 1900 for murdering a child, to Joanna Dennehy, who stabbed three men to death, female killers have always been the subject of lurid fascination. We look at the worst women in Britain's history....
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Daily Express,
Monday, February 24, 2014
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Whole lifers: prisoners who will die in jail
All but five of the 49 prisoners to have been handed whole-life sentences are in prisons rather than hospitals.
The latest among them is one-eyed serial killer Dale Cregan, jailed last year for the murders of four people......
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The Times,
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
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Haul of makeshift knives discovered under prayer mats in mosque at HMP Swaleside on Isle of Sheppey after mass brawl
Police are investigating after a haul of home-made knives was discovered at a Sheppey prison mosque following a gang fight....
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Sheerness Times Guardian,
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
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A monster's memoirs: Never seen before, the self-pitying jail journal of Myra Hindley
Not for the children�s lives she had snuffed out � but for having a �disloyal� dream about her lover and partner in crime Ian Brady trying to strangle her....
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Daily Mail,
Saturday, October 26, 2013
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Life behind bars in Bangkok's notorious Klong Prem prison
Journalist and Muay Thai enthusiast James Goyder got a glimpse inside a notorious jail when he participated in a boxing match with one of the inmates...
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Telegraph,
Saturday, October 26, 2013
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Campaigners want to free 'Britain's most violent prisoner'
Campaigners will hand in a petition at 10 Downing Street pleading for a man dubbed "Britain's most violent prisoner" to be released....
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Independent.ie,
Saturday, August 31, 2013
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Inside the twisted mind of a monster
A CHILL ran down my spine the moment the TV flickered on and I came face to face with one of Britain...
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The Daily Express,
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
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Patrick McGoohan: The Prisoner actor dies aged 80
Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy award-winning actor who created and starred in 1960s TV show The Prisoner, has died at the age of 80....
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Guardian,
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
No recent news for UK in this category.
Suicides in Prison
No recent news for UK in this category.
Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News
