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Women
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Rehabilitation
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A new report from the Safe Homes for Women Leaving Prison initiative exposes a failing system that leaves thousands of women released from UK prisons with £46, a plastic bag, nowhere to live and the threat of a return to custody if they miss their probation appointment.
The initiative is a collabor…
Pre-trial detention
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Lockdown conditions in prisons have effectively ended opportunities for prisoners to take part in rehabilitation activities and progress in their sentences.
For the nearly 11,000 prisoners serving indeterminate sentences (9,000 unreleased; 2,000 recalled), this could lead to them spending significa…
Europe
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From probation reform to test and trace, the government has presided over a catalogue of public services failures.
Coronavirus
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Minors
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Rules allowing up to 22 hours of solitary confinement for young offenders could continue, in move lawyers say is ‘very concerning’
Coronavirus
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Social ties
Rehabilitation
United Kingdom
MoJ says hotels used as last resort to prevent homelessness and reduce coronavirus risk.
Coronavirus
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Mental health
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An inspection of a Kent prison during lockdown has revealed inmates have been confined to their cells for 23 hours a day and had no face-to-face contact with the outside world for at least 12 weeks.
The report has also highlighted a “self-inflicted death” at HMP Maidstone since the restrictions cam…
Europe
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Drugs
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Nurse Katie Haddon talks readers through a day in the life of a Prison Nurse.
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Overcrowded, confined spaces are a nightmare for the spread of coronavirus. This makes prisons a potential hotspot for the disease.
Despite this, most researchers who study prisons have been locked out of them at this crucial time. In the UK, the prison and probation service has halted primary rese…
UK: le système pénitentiaire traverse une grave crise, selon le Comité européen anti-torture
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Human rights delegation finds ‘reprehensible practice’ in three male prisons
Coronavirus
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Health
Social ties
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Following discussion with families who currently have a loved one in prison, Prison Reform Trust associate Sarah Beresford reflects on the role that allowing greater use of virtual visits could play in helping people in prison and their loved ones through the Covid-19 pandemic, and beyond.
“Maybe t…
Women
Europe
Violence
United Kingdom
The segregation of a jail’s transgender women prisoners for “long periods” has been noted as a concern by a watchdog.
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) also had “serious concerns” about the lack of rehabilitation courses, and of women facing homelessness on release from HMP Eastwood Park.
It p…
Coronavirus
Europe
Health
United Kingdom
Minister of State Lucy Frazer QC MP has made a statement on preparedness to deal with coronavirus (COVID-19) in prisons.
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The British prison system currently deals with high-security terrorism convicts by sending them to dispersal prisons. These prisoners are distributed around six maximum security dispersal jails and are regularly moved from one to another. This is done to prevent them from establishing close relatio…