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Emergency measure to avoid prison overcrowding activated in North of England

Emergency plans to avoid prison overcrowding have been activated in the North of England as more rioters are sentenced. Operation Early Dawn, a long-standing plan which allows defendants to be held in police cells and not summoned to magistrates’ ...

19 Aug 2024 at 15:48

Attacks on prison staff in England and Wales hit 21-year high

Attacks on prison staff reach 21-year high

Attacks on prison staff have soared to their highest level for more than two decades, with some 10,000 assaults recorded in a year. The number of incidents in the 12 months to June in England and Wales shot up 30% to 10,281, compared with 7,907 ...

31 Oct 2024 at 16:24

Smell of rat urine ‘overpowering’ at squalid and failing prison, says watchdog

Inmates blocked gaps under their cell doors with cardboard and towels to stave off a rat infestation at a failing prison put into special measures by a watchdog, a report has said. Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor said the smell of ...

12 Nov 2024 at 00:01

Extra prison capacity will likely last until autumn 2025, MPs told

The Government’s early prison release scheme has likely bought it extra capacity until autumn 2025, MPs have heard. Prisons minister Lord Timpson and senior civil servants were pressed by the Commons Justice Committee on the impact of the ...

19 Nov 2024 at 16:38

Minister calls for drugs in prisons to be treated as public health issue

Prisons minister Lord Timpson has called for the problem of drugs in the UK’s jails to be treated as a public health issue, as MPs heard of the deaths of 17 inmates at Parc prison in South Wales. Four members of staff at the prison in ...

11 Dec 2024 at 12:31

Drugs brought in to prisons in children’s nappies, MPs told

Contraband is brought in to prisons in “children’s nappies” and through the use of “drone drops” by organised criminal gangs, MPs have been told. This came as prisons minister Lord Timpson called for the use of drugs in UK jails to ...

11 Dec 2024 at 14:57

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Greggs and Greene King among firms backing drive to get offenders into work

Greggs, Iceland and Greene King are among the British businesses to back a new Government initiative aimed at steering offenders on probation away from crime and into stable jobs. Leaders from major employers will be among those ...

10 Jan 2025 at 08:20

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