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Fifth man sentenced for prison riot that caused £110,000 worth of damage
Express and Star· 5 days agoOn Tuesday, September 24, 2019 prison staff at HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire came under attack...
Patriotic social democracy is powering Labour
The New Statesman· 5 days agoIt was these words that earned shadow transport secretary Andrew Smith rapt applause at the 1996 Labour Party conference as he inveighed against the...
Commons passes Labour plans to let thousands of inmates out early
Daily Mail· 5 days agoMPs signed off the Government’s early release measure, designed to ease the prisons overcrowding...
'Fireball' drone-delivered drug packages causing Mountjoy mayhem amid gun 'fear'
The Irish Sun· 5 days agoPACKAGES dubbed “fireballs” stuffed with drugs and weapons are being dropped by drone onto the...
Scale of prisons crisis exposed in performance ratings, Government says
Daily Echo· 6 days agoOut of the 119 adult prisons in England and Wales, just over four in 10 (42% or 50) were rated of “concern” or “serious concern”, according to PA news agency analysis of the figures for the ...
Starmer says Labour finding ‘more mess’ from Tories every day as he launches Great British Energy...
The Guardian· 6 days agoKeir Starmer said the “hard graft of rebuilding this country has truly started” as he accused the...
Baroness Newlove calls for victims to get say on prisoner early release terms
Warrington Guardian via Yahoo News UK· 6 days agoIt comes as Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood told the Commons more emergency measures could be...
The prison system is broken
The New Statesman· 6 days agoWithin days of his remarks, Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary, announced thousands of prisoners would be eligible for early release – after serving...
Violence, self-harm and drugs: Shock new figures lay bare crisis facing Britain’s prisons
The Independent· 6 days agoMinistry of Justice (MoJ) figures on Thursday laid bare the scale of the chaos in UK prisons, days...
Mahmood open to ‘further emergency measures’ to respond to prisons ‘crisis’
Shropshire Star· 6 days agoShabana Mahmood told MPs that the prison population remains “within a few hundred places of collapse” and the Government will continue ...
