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Alcohol tag MoJ
Alcohol/Drugs/Gambling
Sobriety tags come into force

The ankle tags, which are to be rolled out across England and Wales, perform around-the-clock monitoring of an offender’s sweat to determine whether alcohol has been consumed.

handcuffed
On Probation
Probation not learning from serious further offences

Serious further offences inspection: The government and probation services are not doing enough to learn from past mistakes. Lessons must be learnt to prevent more tragedies in the future.

A prisoner flexes his muscles. HMP Wandsworth
Prison
New research on working with psychopathic prisoners

Chromis is a prison based treatment programme aimed at reducing violence in people whose level or combination of psychopathic traits disrupts their ability to engage in treatment and change. Does it work?

A sniffer dog searching post
Alcohol/Drugs/Gambling
Drug use and prisons

Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs provides a detailed overview of drug use and prisons.

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