HMP Lowdham Grange – Another Failing Private Prison? Or a Sign of the Times? Privately run prisons in the UK have come under considerable scrutiny for many years now, with [...]
Damning Report on HMP Cookham Wood Shows Increased Levels of Violence HMP Cookham Wood has often hit the headlines for the wrong reasons. Back in 2003, when still a female [...]
HMYOI Aylesbury – Is the Prison System Failing Our Youngest, Most Vulnerable Inmates? Widely regarded as the UK’s toughest young offender’s prison, HMP Aylesbury has once again been criticised heavily [...]
HMP Littlehey and Other UK Prisons: Unable to Cope with Elderly Inmates? In her recent blog post, Frances Crook, chief executive for the Howard League for Penal Reform, discusses a [...]
EXCLUSIVE: TB Breakout at YOI Swinfen Hall – The Truth In June 2015, news broke that there were three further cases of tuberculosis at YOI Swinfen Hall – bringing the [...]
Pentonville Prison: Squalor, Violence and Cockroaches – The Implications of a Poorly Managed Prison A report published on June 23rd, 2015, declared that Pentonville Prison was ‘extremely dirty’, ‘poorly monitored’ [...]
