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The importance of good prisons in a criminal justice system
...meaningful to do and they need to be kept both physically and mentally healthy. This means that rehabilitation works best when there are close links between prisons and the community....
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Lack of purposeful activity risks more crime, says Chief Inspector
...prisons is “a seemingly intractable problem” raised by each of his six predecessors since the first HMI Prisons annual report published 40 years ago. Recent inspections found that some prisoners...
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Lack of purposeful activity risks more crime, says Chief Inspector
...prisons is “a seemingly intractable problem” raised by each of his six predecessors since the first HMI Prisons annual report published 40 years ago. Recent inspections found that some prisoners...
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...contact HMI Prisons about any safeguarding concerns you may have, please do so via email (hmiprisons.enquiries@hmiprisons.gov.uk), or write to us at HM Inspectorate of Prisons, 3rd floor, 10 South Colonnade,...
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World Literacy Day – the central importance of reading in prisons
...activity has, with rare exception, consistently been the lowest scoring of our four healthy prison tests and, in 2022–23, we rated 36 out of 37 men’s prisons as insufficiently good...
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The critical role of leadership in prisons
...by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor to the Governing Governors’ Forum on 17 May 2023. HM Inspectorate of Prisons is an independent inspectorate, inspecting places of detention to...
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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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Why the prison population crisis is everyone’s concern
...to court. Prisons like Belmarsh and Birmingham, that used to hold a mixed population with a substantial proportion of prisoners coming back to their local prison in preparation for their...
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HMP Long Lartin and HMP Whitemoor – squalid conditions a sign of wider concerns
...not even discharging their duty to maintain clean and decent facilities. Both prisons need to take urgent action to improve. Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons The physical conditions...
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