Prison
Our prisons keep getting more violent
Latest (October 2017) prison safety figures continue to shock with the highest recorded levels of self-harm and assaults ever recorded.
28th October 2017
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Latest (October 2017) prison safety figures continue to shock with the highest recorded levels of self-harm and assaults ever recorded.
Latest prison safety statistics confirm all time highs for self-harm and assaults – again. The term crisis is beginning to seem an inadequate description.
A damning annual report from Prison Chief Inspector Peter Clarke highlights lack of safety, particularly in YOIs & that prisoners spent too much time locked up.
The Centre for Crime & Justice Studies shows just how topsy-turvy UK justice policy was between the 2015 general election and the Brexit referendum.
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.
European watchdog finds spiralling violence in English prisons with the main causes overcrowding, poor regimes and under-staffing.
Latest prison safety stats show that the surge in suicides, self-harm and assaults are associated closely with the reduction of resources and staffing levels.
The MoJ puts officer-inmate relationships central to its plans to improve prison safety with one prison officer working with six individual prisoners.
October 2016 Ministry of Justice Safety in Custody statistics show an unrelenting and rapid increase in the numbers of suicides, assaults and self-harm
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman investigates six homicides of prisoners in the last year – the biggest total in living memory.
