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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.

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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.

Prison Officer body cam
Prison
Body worn video cameras in prison

Evaluation of prison officers’ use of body worn video cameras found they had a varying impact on the levels of recorded violence and use of force.

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