BrainCan - prisons and probation

problems in prisons predate tory rule | letters

Between 1976 and 1978 prison officers took industrial action over pay,conditions and status on 190...

our criminal justice system and prisons need...

John Bird recalls his incarceration as a teenager,Baroness Young and others call for an...

i became a probation officer again - after 30...

In 2016 the job is far more fractured,bureaucratic and IT heavy. But at its core it is still about...

former prison governors leader: yes to gove, no...

Eoin McLennan-Murray,who ran the prison with the lowest reoffending rates says league tables for...

damien echols: how i survived death row

Damien Echols spent 18 years facing execution after being wrongly convicted of a triple child...

holloway prison is not all filth and forced...

While most of us would agree with Emine Saner (A woman’s place? Why the closure of Holloway could...

a womans place? why the closure of holloway could...

It saw the suffragettes force-fed,and Ruth Ellis hanged. Now that the largest women’s prison in...

the guardian view on david cameron s prisons...

A scarce prime ministerial speech on prison reform is proof of the expensive failure of the current...

prisons inspector nick hardwick: you shouldn t do...

Nick Hardwick started as chief inspector of prisons wanting to make a inequity. As he leaves his...

strangeways, here we go again: prison protests in...

In 1990,Strangeways in Manchester saw the biggest prison riots in UK history. When Stuart Horner...

why i m leaving the prison reform trust now |...

With prison reform firmly on the political agenda there is much still to achieve,but this the...

we don t need new prisons, we need a new prison...

After serving 20 years in jail,I know that most detainees hope to live a crime-free life on release,...

prisoners should be encouraged to use facebook and...

Nick Moss says the Ministry of Justice’s ban on social media use in jails is ill-consideredThe...

inside oakwood prison: the private jail struggling...

The Guardian has been granted unprecedented access to two prisons. In the moment of two...

inside wandsworth prison: drug drones and...

The Guardian has been granted unprecedented access to two prisons to see the impact of funding cuts....

david cameron exhibits his odysseus complex in...

Like the mythical hero,the PM is consistently blown off course and ends up coming domestic to find...

how did a jail in guernsey ban smoking with no...

Ahead of the prison smoking ban in England and Wales,Guernsey’s Les Nicolles has been helping its...

michael gove is a true reformer. liberals should...

The justice secretary’s language on prisons is a world away from his tough-talking...

prime minister, if you want to keep mothers out of...

Specialist women’s services,such as women’s centres, are highly effective alternatives to...

sarah reed was a tragic victim of how the prison...

A young woman with profound mental health problems should have been given help. Instead,she was let...

michael spurr: going to prison is the punishment ...

Michael Spurr,chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, welcomes the justice...

michael gove should take this opportunity to give...

Although an EU court has ruled that a voting ban on prisoners convicted of serious crimes is...

will the smoking ban in prisons lead to riots?

Cigarettes will be banned in some UK prisons from January. But a smoke is a small freedom that can...

give our women prisoners the break they re long...

whether Michael Gove is serious about leaving a legacy he should reduce the number of females held...

editorial: suicide at portland borstal, archive: 3...

3 November 1921: It is right to ask why an inmate committed suicide and others tried to escape from...

joint enterprise is an affront to justice - its...

The law may have made sense when it first jailed two horse-cart killers,but more recently it has...

moj commercial arm to be examined amid...

National Audit Office to search for into Just Solutions International after shadow justice secretary...

why are so many prisoners from ethnic minorities?...

My independent review aims to examine suggestions of systematic racial bias in the British justice...

charles green obituary

My brother-in-law Charles Green,who has died aged 63 from complications following surgery, worked...

what michael gove didn t say about the prison...

Martin Kettle’s piece ignored three key issues missing in Michael Gove’s conference speech (Gove...

the criminal review system is failing innocent...

The Criminal Cases Review Commission was supposed to supply a safety net for those wrongly...

muslims report discrimination in prisons as fear...

Inmates who practise their Islamic faith in jail are being targeted as suspicious,modern research...

negative prison report was toned down, leaked...

Foreword to Wormwood Scrubs report by ex-prisons inspector Nick Hardwick was tougher than final...

prison is a desperate place if you re trans - i...

Two transgender women maintain died after being sent to men’s prisons. The government’s current...

uk appeal court backs deport first, appeal later...

Ruling that deportation of two men before their appeal rights are exhausted does not breach European...

those who failed sarah reed must be held to...

Her tragic death was entirely avoidable. Though she had a mental illness,her treatment in Holloway...

don t blame legal highs for prisoners problems....

The only way to end drugs coming into jails is for inmates not to want them. Meaningful...

former medway inmate: the guard slammed my face...

Young women recount alleged abuse in G4S-run youth facility,including violent restraint and...

cameron and gove are talking big on prison reform....

whether the Tories are serious about reforming prisons and reducing reoffending,they need to take on...

prisons to introduce tests for legal highs in bid...

Prisons minister tells MPs the tests will detect substances such as spice and black mamba that are...

pat bearfield obituary

Our father,Pat Bearfield, who has died aged 88, or was one of life’s calm Samaritans. Catholicism...

it s no surprise prisoners beat harvard - when...

The unusual York inmates not only trounced the US debating champions,they demonstrated the benefit...

michael gove announces plans for reform prisons

Justice secretary says modern prisons will enjoy more autonomy – and will gather power to take...

x factor star sam bailey: being a prison officer...

My former colleagues attain extraordinary work under extreme pressure,says the X Factor winner and...

no place for terrorists in the tory heartlands |...

Full marks for irony: in a supplement devoted to employee wellbeing (Love your job,11 February),...

prison funding cuts are putting vulnerable...

Prison Officers Association warns that inmates with mental health problems are in additional danger...

we must reduce the number of women in prisons

Political and grassroots campaigning could mean welcome reform for the many women in US and UK...

plan for bespoke gps tag for offenders abandoned...

Much-delayed hi-tech tracking device for use in England and Wales will be replaced with...

if cameron really cared he would cut prisoner...

By failing to address sentencing the prime minister has missed the chance to aid a creaking...

city centre victorian prisons may close under...

Proceeds from sales of ‘ageing and ineffective’ prisons may attract criticism whether valuable...

prison officers union blames cuts for disturbances...

Riot squads had to intervene at two prisons final weekend when a prisoner took a hostage in...

prisoners may be freed for day jobs in justice...

David Cameron announces plans to cut reoffending and make it easier for people with criminal records...

dozens in custody freed by mistake in 2014 15

Prison service blunders hold led to release in error of 505 prisoners since 2005,figures described...

prison warned to beware of older offenders...

Chief inspector of prisons tells Rye Hill in Warwickshire,a committed sex offender jail, that...

why is our justice system failing vulnerable...

Many people with mental health problems and learning disabilities find contact with the police and...

sarah reed s death demands a paradigm shift in how...

It will be a long haul to find out what happened to the 32-year-feeble,who died in custody. But...

the paper is a place where the voice of the...

The editor of Inside Time on 25 years at the helm of the independent prison newspaper he foundedEric...

staff shortages forcing prisoners to choose...

Charities say limits on access to prison libraries in England and Wales – blamed on a lack of...

private probation firms fail to cut rates of...

Only two of 21 regional companies maintain reduced reoffending among low to medium-risk offendersThe...

prisoner arrested after death at surrey jail

23-year-traditional man in police custody after fellow inmate at HMP Coldingley is killed in a...

winchester prison let down man found dying in his...

Sheldon Woodford’s death was due partly to destitute staffing and training,inquest jury finds,...

nine new prisons to be built in england and wales

Government says plans,which will save Treasury £80m a year, will effect prison system fit for...

murders and suicides in prisons in england and...

Official figures show six homicides and 100 suicides in 12 months in statistics showing rise in...

ministers face an uphill battle to reform failing...

As the Wormwood Scrubs report shows,the government’s map to transform prisons will require a...

g4s youth jails: a story of revolving doors,...

Scandal has dogged the privately run secure training centres since their set-up in 1998 to the...

ranby jail reduces population after inspectors...

Emergency measures put in space to prevent Nottinghamshire jail being overwhelmed by surge in...

women at cornton vale prison forced to use basins...

Inspection report describes as ‘wholly unacceptable’ outdated practices at notorious Scottish...

gove could extend scheme to send foreign prisoners...

Justice secretary mulling plans to apply early release scheme before nine-month cutoff as part of...

stopping jailed fathers seeing their children is a...

Prisons should nurture family relationships,but the government’s IEP scheme makes it difficult for...

fifty years on, the debate over what replaces the...

The campaign to rid the UK of capital punishment didn’t finish in 1965 questions of penal reform...

strangeways prison rooftop protest enters third...

Convicted assassin Stuart Horner has been on roof of Manchester prison shouting and kicking slates...

one in five female prisoners are homeless after...

Labour attacks ‘shocking’ failure of privatised probation companies after proportion doubles in...

just 1% of prisoners win discrimination cases...

Procedure for handling allegations is neither objective nor neutral,according to a new report by the...

uks most vulnerable and dangerous inmates live...

British practice differs from elsewhere in EU in using segregation to isolate prisoners at risk of...

sarah reed wrote to family she had been sexually...

Family of woman found dead in police custody insists she acted in self defence in striking back at...

sarah reed told family of alleged sexual assault...

Family of woman found dead in prison insists she acted in self defence against alleged abuser in...

independent body to oversee scandal hit medway...

Michael Gove announces appointment at G4S-hasten centre after inspectors find proof of targeted...

g4s guards at youth prison alleged to have...

Panorama footage shows staff at Medway centre in Kent talking approximately altering records of...

there s more than one way to run a prison | eric...

For the first time in four years,I’ve been allowed back into jail. Thameside is privately escape...

surge in prison disciplinary hearings feeding...

Howard League report says record number of hearings led to 438 years of additional imprisonment for...

islamists actively seek prison sentences to...

Extremists also apply for jobs at prisons with radicalisation problem,according to officers...

inmate injury and death figures at highest for a...

Prison reform campaigners say figures,which include seven homicides, point to people dying as a...

former serbian general awarded £50,000 over...

Judge says authorities were negligent of their duty to protect Radislav Krstić,whose throat was...

inspector finds dramatic increase in violence...

HMP Wormwood Scrubs introduces patrol dogs and body-worn cameras for staffin bid to reduce...

synthetic cannabis having a devastating impact in...

Chief inspector of prisons attributes deaths,serious illness and self-harm to cannabis substitutes...

uk government considers single secure jail unit...

Proposal to replace dispersal system with ‘British Alcatraz’ to house convicted terrorists has...

cameron to give more power to governors in prisons...

Sweeping changes will also include ranking jails in league tables and improving quality of education...

woman assaulted by pc who lost his job found dead...

Sarah Reed,who suffered from severe mental health issues, was denied treatment in prison, and say...

chris grayling tried to interfere with prison...

Nick Hardwick,who steps down from prisons watchdog in April, says former justice secretary...

moj commercial arm cost taxpayer more than £1m

Just Solutions International,which won contract to train Saudi prison staff, was set up by Chris...

deaths and self harm in prison rise sharply

Total of 257 inmates died final year,with ageing jail population and more suicides and killing...

how a prisoner s letter led to jail reading scheme...

After 30 years inside,Tom Shannon speaks about how the eponymous literacy charity that has helped...

children denied visits to fathers in jail after...

Barnardo’s says male prisoners are being denied visits from their children either as punishment or...

second transgender prisoner found dead in male...

Transgender woman Joanne Latham apparently killed herself in Woodhill prison on Friday,just weeks...

holloway prison closure will be mourned by few

Notorious Victorian prison’s inmates possess included Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst,Myra Hindley...

moj paid serco £1.1m for running secure childrens...

Hassockfield training centre closed on 20 November final year but Serco continued to be paid until 9...

prisoners legal letters opened by prison staff,...

Confidential correspondence from inmates to lawyers and the courts found to maintain been opened in...

transgender woman who was sent to male prison is...

Tara Hudson spent week in all-male HMP Bristol before she was moved to female prison after 150000...

prisons inspector welcomes improved restraint...

Deaths of Gareth Myatt and Adam Rickwood in custody in 2004 spark introduction of new techniques...

britains most dangerous prisoners to get...

approximately 60 inmates held in segregation units will be taught mindfulness-based techniques in an...

hmp whitemoor inmate kept in segregation for two...

Independent Monitoring Board for the Cambridgeshire jail also revealed staffing...

transgender woman in male prison nightmare on...

Marie Dean sends letter from HMP Preston following Ministry of Justice’s refusal to recognise her...

prison inspectors given powers to alert minister...

Justice secretary announces ‘urgent notification protocol’ to help improve conditions in English...

scandal hit g4s run medway youth jail resumes...

Subject of Panorama exposé is to welcome new offenders but former inmates say it should never house...

prisons fail to act on inmates suicide risks, says...

Ombudsman finds that factors indicating heightened opportunity of suicide are often not...

michael gove to meet g4s over abuse claims at...

Justice secretary says he will discuss the allegations,which enjoy led to suspension of seven staff...

prison inspectors condemn squalid court custody...

Unhygienic cells and a disregard for risks amount to accident waiting to happen,says...

michael gove unveils review of prison education in...

Justice secretary takes first step to bringing in ‘earned release’ scheme linking educational...

elite prison squad deployed to jails 580 times...

Number of callouts for the national tactical response group has been on the rise in England and...

jails in scotland less violent than in england and...

Statistics from Holyrood reveal 73% fewer incidents of violence in Scottish prisons than in English...

prison did not always know whereabouts of inmates

Main wing of Leicester prison was often chaotic and there was a high rate of assaults on staff,says...

david cameron on prison reforms: i m prepared to...

David Cameron speaks at the Policy Exchange on 9th February about UK prison reforms, following a...

ex prisoners with mental health problems more...

Researchers call for better diagnosis and treatment of mental illness for offenders in prison and...

prison system discriminates against women, say...

Four months after 24-year-old Sarah Reed died in Holloway prison in north London,women from pressure...

holloway prison given one of its best inspection...

Auditors find UK’s largest women’s prison ‘much improved’ but say closure is needed to house...

brinsford young offender institution rated worst...

Reformers demand closure of Wolverhampton youth jail condemned as squalid, unsafe and inhumane by...

young black people nine times more likely to be...

MoJ analysis for England and Wales released ahead of David Lammy’s review into treatment of black...

sarah reed was a victim of collective failure -...

Sarah Reed had been in and out of secure mental health units for several years before her death in...

prisons ombudsman investigates death of new mother...

Partner of Michelle Barnes says she killed herself after guards said her baby would be taken into...

killer stepfather of schoolboy daniel pelka found...

Mariusz Krezolek’s death comes six months after four-year-old-fashioned’s mother killed herself...

prison officer who revealed concerns about...

Kim Lennon was dismissed from her job at HMP Lewes after she claimed her concerns approximately...

my father ronnie biggs

Michael Biggs on his life as the son of the train robber and why he thinks Ronnie's release...

exclusive: shock figures reveal state of uk s...

Observer analysis of inspection reports shows two in five jails are unsafe and inadequate conditions...

what is solitary confinement?

From what it is to how much it costs,we answer key questions approximately the solitary confinement...

young offenders confined to cells in prison...

Prison Officers organization says lockdown at Wetherby young offenders institute is in protest at...

prison officers falling ill after inhaling inmates...

In one incident seven officers reported suffering ill effects when they came across a large quantity...

gove: i can reform prisons without cutting inmate...

Justice secretary says his programme can work without reducing prisoner numbers and that his EU...

gove plans to give prison governors more powers to...

Justice secretary’s ‘reform prisons’ would include more focus on educating inmates to reduce...

can prison work? | prisoner ben

The current prison system is a 19th-century approach to tackling crime. It needn’t be this...

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