Prison officer recruitment starting to work
Prison officer recruitment starting to work but existing staff are leaving at the highest rate ever. Probation recruitment has improved over the last year.
24th May 2017
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Prison officer recruitment starting to work but existing staff are leaving at the highest rate ever. Probation recruitment has improved over the last year.
Guernsey is first UK prison to use electronic disruptor shield to stop drug delivery by drone. Cost between £100 – £250k depending on size of prison.
Prisoners have very mixed experiences of drug treatment, particularly the prescribing of substitute medications such as methadone or buprenorphine (AKA Subutex)
We need a holistic, woman-centred, integrated approach identified in the Corston Report to avoid needless and damaging contact with the criminal justice system.
1 in 100 prisoners who alleged discrimination against prison staff had their case upheld but 3 out of 4 staff claims of discrimination by a prisoner were upheld
The latest official prison safety statistics are the worst ever although there was a slight reduction in the number of assaults in the last quarter.
Bob Neill, Chair of the Justice Select Committee updates us on the Prisons and Courts Bill and the other work of the Committee to the end of the 2017 parliament
European watchdog finds spiralling violence in English prisons with the main causes overcrowding, poor regimes and under-staffing.
Valuable report from Beyond Youth Custody rounds up the key learning about young people’s desistance from 16 projects taking place over the last 5 years.
Justice Committee rejects the idea of prison league tables and highlights industrial relations with both governors & staff as key obstacle to prison reform.
The Prisons & Probation Ombudsman reviews 19 investigations of female prisoner suicides and finds that prisons are still not implementing key recommendations.
New app being trialled in prisons and the community supports desistance through helping offenders with education, employment, health and much more.
