£1 Million Paid For Lost Prisoner Property
Prisoners have received more than a million pounds in compensation for lost or damaged property in the last five years, new figures reveal. Over 13,000 taxpayer-funded payouts have been made since 2013 for items including clothing, trainers, DVD players and hair...
Report into Sport in Prisons Published
Young offenders will be given healthy eating advice upon arrival behind bars under new Government plans. Inmates up to the age of 21 will be provided with nutritional guidance so they can make "informed choices" about their diets. In another step, canteen stock lists...
Fish, Steak, and Drugs – along with the usual Mobile Phones and Sim Cards – Delivered to Prison say IMB
[Note: You can now comment on this and any of our posts without having to register and log in!] Fresh meat and fish are among the contraband items being brought into a prison in Cheshire - along with the more usual mobile phones and sim cards. Inmates at HMP Thorn...
Justice Secretary Was Wrong To Demand Parole Board Chair’s Resignation
A convicted armed robber has lost his High Court bid to halt the selection process of a new chair of the Parole Board - but won a declaration. Paul Wakenshaw, who has served the minimum term of an indeterminate sentence imposed in October 2009 and is under review,...
HMP Hull – HM Prisons Inspectorate Warns About Deliberate Recalls & Drug Smuggling
A jail has been urged to improve its efforts to stop suspected drug-smuggling by inmates sent back behind bars after being released. A report found there was "some evidence" that prisoners recalled on licence were trafficking drugs into HMP Hull. But HM Inspectorate...
Yet Another Disclosure ‘Debacle’ As Former Genesis Producer Told ‘No Further Action’
Police have apologised for serious failings in their investigation into disgraced DJ Jonathan King after the collapse of his trial. There will be no further action against King and he will not be re-tried over alleged historical sex offences. The 73-year-old, of...
“Ruthless Sexual Predator” Cop Given Two Life Sentences in 2011 For 2 Rapes, 3 Indecent Assaults and 6 Counts of Misconduct in Public Office – FREED ON PAROLE??
Calls are growing for a review into the "disturbing and incomprehensible" decision to release a former police officer who was jailed for life for raping and sexually assaulting vulnerable women and committing six counts of misconduct in public office. Stephen Mitchell...
Parole Board – Over 800 Requests For Decision Details Since Worboys
The Parole Board has received more than 800 requests for details of its decisions under a new scheme introduced following the John Worboys case. Until earlier this year, the body was barred from disclosing why its panels had decided that an offender should be released...
HMYOI Wetherby & Keppel Unit: Real Progress But Violence Needs To Be Addressed
Wetherby – a young offender institution in Yorkshire with 231 boys aged between 15 and 18, including 40 in the specialist Keppel unit for the most vulnerable and challenging young people in the national detention system – was found by inspectors to have made “very...
Accused Met Cop In Court Claims Colleagues Too ‘Scared To Make Arrests’.
A police officer accused of sawing and smashing his way through a suspect's windscreen has claimed the sharp rise in violent crime in London is down to officers being too afraid to make arrests in case they face a backlash. Joshua Savage, 28, allegedly attacked Leon...
