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Homes for the Dangerous? Understanding Category A Prisons The UK’s prisons are currently divided into 4 categories – A, B, C and D (open). Generally speaking, category A prisons are [...]
Eastwood Park Prison Tel: 01454 382100 – Church Avenue, Falfield, Wotton-under-edge, Gloucestershire GL12 8DB HMP Eastwood Park is a female-only closed local prison, situated in Gloucestershire. It [...]
Mothers Behind Bars – The Situation for Mothers and Babies in Prison The importance of the mother and baby bond is widely recognised across the world. Indeed, the US Department [...]
Wrexham Prison Tel: 01978 523000 – Bridge Road, Wrexham Industrial Estate, Wrexham, LL13 9QA HMP Berwyn opened in February 2017, It’s the largest prison in the UK. [...]
Women in Prison – The Real Situation for Female Inmates in the UK Figures taken from May 2014 state that the female population in UK prisons is 3,956; significantly less [...]
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 [...]
Prisons Up in Smoke: The Smoking Ban The government recently announced their plans to phase in a smoking ban across all 136 prisons in England and Wales, beginning next year. [...]
Britain’s ‘Death Row’? The Rise of Deaths in UK Prisons In 2014, a total of 240 inmates died behind bars. 86 of these were suicides, 4 were due to ‘unnatural [...]
Rehabilitation in UK Prisons: Which Methods Are Working… And Which Are Not? Rehabilitation is a complex issue, and one which never ceases to divide opinion. Some, most notably new Justice [...]
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 [...]
