5 d. ago UK prisons in 'crisis mode' and are overcrowded and under staffed, MPs told

Terrible conditions behind bars is risking the ability to rehabilitate offenders and is actually increasing crime - a committee of MPs has warned

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5 d. ago Prisons being on ‘crisis mode’ is harming efforts to reduce reoffending, MPs warn

A new Justice Committee report highlighted a number of factors undermining efforts to cut reoffending

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8 d. ago Lammy urged to end ‘scandal’ of people imprisoned for own protection

Exclusive: Removing courts’ power would help vulnerable adults and children and ‘free up jail spaces’, experts say, in wake of recent manhunts to find missing prisoners released by mistake

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9 d. ago Jail with 42 staff recruited from overseas would be left in crisis under new visa rules, warns prisons boss

THE Chief Inspector of prisons has warned that a jail with 42 staff recruited from overseas would be left in crisis if the new visa restrictions are not reversed. Britain’s prisons are facing a staffing shortage as visa rules threaten to force a wave of foreign recruits to return home. There has been a surge...

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9 d. ago Former prison officer calls for action in jail release crisis

Claire Lewis was the victim of a horrific assault in high security Frankland jail, Durham 15 years ago, warned it is only a matter of time before a freed prisoner reoffends

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9 d. ago Yet another prison scandal for Calamity Lammy: Mail investigation finds guards accused of criminal offences are allowed to quietly resign or transfer to avoid police probes

The shocking findings come amid a prison service crisis following a series of wrongful releases that have left justice secretary David Lammy scrambling for answers.

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1 week ago Yet another prison scandal for Calamity Lammy: Mail probe finds guards accused of criminal offences are allowed to quietly resign or transfer to avoid police probes

The shocking findings come amid a prison service crisis following a series of wrongful releases that have left justice secretary David Lammy scrambling for answers.

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1 week ago Prisoner release errors rate 'rising faster than UK jail population' says expert

A top prisons researcher has said the government's proposed checks cannot immediately fix a system that is breaking down from multiple angles, with no available 'quick way out'

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1 week ago Tories blasted by former prison officer for 'breaking point' crisis

Sally Jameson, who worked for five years at HMP & YOI Moorland said accidental releases were unacceptable, but accused the Conservatives of letting the system rot for years

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1 week ago Lammy admits 'mountain to climb' on prisons crisis as 40 more inmates may be wrongly freed before Christmas

Pressure is increasing on the Justice Secretary David Lammy over his handling of the blunders

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1 week ago Police preparing for 6% crime surge in first year if sentencing reforms go ahead

Plans proposed under the Sentencing Bill to ease the prisons overcrowding crisis include limiting the use of short prison sentences and releasing convicted criminals earlier in their jail terms

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1 week ago Prison governors in crisis talks as hunt continues for wrongly released inmates

Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones said she was furious about the situation.

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2 w. ago Crisis after two prisoners released from same jail as David Lammy voices fury

Justice Secretary David Lammy voiced his fury after it emerged criminals Brahim Kaddour-Cherif and William Smith had both been released from HMP Wandsworth - just days after the Hadush Kebatu scandal

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2 w. ago Wandsworth prisoner released latest: Manhunt for criminal mistakenly freed last week

The error comes just days after sex offender migrant Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford

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2 w. ago Prison drugs crisis hits ‘endemic’ levels as drone sightings soar 1,140 per cent

There is a ‘dangerous culture of acceptance’ around substance misuse in prisons as almost four in 10 inmates admit it’s easy to get drugs, a report warns

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3 w. ago Sentencing reforms clear the Commons despite concerns over early releases

The Sentencing Bill aims to ease the crisis in prison places by restricting the use of short sentences and strengthening community punishments.

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3 w. ago The prison crisis that led to mistaken release of migrant sex offender

The incident exposes the staffing pressures at the heart of Britain’s prison crisis

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3 w. ago 'Perfect storm': Prison officers warn 'crisis point' in Scotland's prisons has already been reached

Prison officers are demanding more government funding to help tackle the issues caused by overcrowding.

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3 w. ago Prisons crisis means serious criminals will be mistakenly released again, experts warn

Errors such as accidental release of Hadush Kebatu, who was imprisoned for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, are symptomatic of ‘chaos’ in criminal justice system

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3 w. ago Accidental release of migrant sex offender is sign of a ‘broken’ justice system, minister says

Steve Reed called for criminal justice system to be ‘rebuilt from bottom up’ after mistaken release of Hadush Kebatu, who was imprisoned for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl

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