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UK: 'our prison deradicalisation programmes aren't working'
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…UK: women released from prison nearly three times less likely to be in employment on release than men
A new briefing, Working It Out, published today by the Prison Reform Trust and Working Chance, reveals that fewer than one in 20 women (4%) were in employment six weeks after release from prison, compared with over one in 10 men (11%).UK: Big rise in assault and self-harm incidents at Highpoint Prison prompts call for the number of people in prison to be reduced
Incidents of assault and self harm at Highpoint prison have risen in recent years, amid warnings that England and Wales’ prisons have been asked “to do too much with too little for too long”.UK: forecast fall in prison numbers not "green light" for government justice reforms
A projected drop in the prison population is “no justification” for an “unevidenced ‘tough on crime’ policy” from the Government, campaigners have said. The comments came as the number of people behind bars was forecast to drop in the next five years.UK: Boris Johnson anuncia la creación de 10.000 espacios nuevos en las prisiones
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