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Drugs and disorder: worrying times for prisons
Over the past year, I have been increasingly concerned about the levels of illicit drugs finding their way into prisons, and whilst drugs in prisons are nothing new, I was...
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HMP Lewes: rising violence, self-harm and drugs hampering progress at troubled jail
...and a serious drug problem. More than half of prisoners were receiving support for substance use and 28% tested positive for drugs in mandatory testing. Fuelling the demand for drugs...
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Chronic staff shortages underpinning problems with drugs, violence and self-harm at HMP Woodhill
...of prisoners tested positive. The debt generated by the use of illicit drugs was the major driver of violence and bullying. Many basic parts of the prison regime were also...
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Drugs, violence and self-harm continue to dominate life at Lowdham Grange
...problem at the jail. We are increasingly concerned about the prevalence of drugs in prisons and Lowdham Grange had one of the highest positive result rates for mandatory drug testing,...
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The importance of good prisons in a criminal justice system
...in homes that were unstable and sometimes abusive, and where misuse of drugs and alcohol, criminality, family breakdown, mental health difficulties and domestic violence were common. And while, in most...
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HMP Wymott: high staff sickness rates drastically impact the regime and drug debt incites fear, self-harm and isolation
...of suspicion drugs tests. The influx of drugs at Wymott remained a serious problem. It was a cause of debt that resulted in prisoners self-isolating and self-harming because of their...
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HMP Wymott
...delayed, and only a third of suspicion drugs tests. The influx of drugs at Wymott remained a serious problem. It was a cause of debt that resulted in prisoners self-isolating...
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HMP Highpoint: Staff shortages and inadequate teaching limiting prisoners’ preparation for release
...in reducing the demand for drugs, and Highpoint was no different. With such a large, rural campus covering two prisons, keeping drugs out was challenging and the demand was fuelled...
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HMP/YOI Hindley: rampant drug use and a poor regime causing very high levels of violence
...challenging population, with a high proportion of prisoners having links to organised crime, high levels of violence and self-harm and more than half of prisoners testing positive for illegal drugs...
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HMP/YOI Hindley
Hindley healthy prison scores What we found Inexperienced prison officers were struggling to manage a very challenging prison dominated by a ‘tsunami’ of drugs, high levels of violence and self-harm...
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