Overcrowding and understaffing have been blamed for the escalating number of suicides in prisons, following the release of alarming new figures. A Government report released recently revealed that 119 inmates took [...]
A former deputy prime minister and two former home secretaries have called on the Government to cut the prison population by almost half. In a letter to the Times, Nick [...]
Rates of reoffending in the UK remain worryingly high. At present, around a quarter of ex-inmates go on to commit another crime within 12 months of being released. For adult [...]
Prison Shake-Up: The Implications for UK Prisons Earlier this month, Minister for Justice, Liz Truss, announced in a report that the prison system was ‘not working’. The article, which featured [...]
Mention Dartmoor Prison, and an image of a stark, forbidding building comes to mind, standing in the midst of endless uninhabited moors. That’s actually not far from the truth. However, [...]
In 2015, Michael Gove (then Minister for Justice) issued a statement on the government website, regarding education in prisons. He stated that: “One of the most important things we can [...]
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