Prisons and probation

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• How to prevent prison suicides as jails struggle with staff cuts

  22 Oct 2014: Letters: It would be a good idea to utilise the services of the existing listeners to support the efforts of prison officers in keeping watch over potentially suicidal inmates

• Foreign prisoner data shows that tough talk is still just talk

  22 Oct 2014: Theresa May’s reputation seems unfounded as numbers show no improvement in deportations during her Home Office reign

• England and Wales prisons chief warns of ‘terrible toll’ of inmate suicides

  21 Oct 2014: Nick Hardwick says 69% rise in self inflicted deaths during 2013-14 provides evidence for rapidly deteriorating safety in jails

• Prison officer gave press tips on James Bulger killer driven ‘by injustice at jail’

  21 Oct 2014: Scott Chapman, accused of accepting £40,000 ‘chucked at him’ by tabloids, tells trial Jon Venables’ special regime was wrong

• Prisons inspector lays out factors behind high suicide rate

  21 Oct 2014: Nick Hardwick blames understaffing, overcrowding, poor mental health care and failure to identify risks for vulnerable inmates

• ‘I would know if another prisoner wanted to give me a kicking’

  21 Oct 2014: As report reveals poor safety in a third of UK adult male prisons, ex-inmates reveal impact of lack of support in bullying culture

• Hardwick report looks at whole prison experience for clues to suicide spike

  21 Oct 2014: Report by chief inspector draws out details of life in adult male prisons that he said contributed to prisoners’ vulnerability
  

• Rise in prison suicides in England and Wales blamed on staff shortages

  21 Oct 2014: Chief inspector of prisons says ‘resource, population and policy pressures’ are to blame for ‘rapid deterioration in safety’

• Oscar Pistorius should not be going to jail

  21 Oct 2014: Simon Jenkins: First thoughts: Pistorius’s life is ruined. No one will be deterred by his sentence. Imprisonment is a brutal response that achieves nothing in such cases

• Prison suicides: the disgrace that Chris Grayling doesn’t get

  21 Oct 2014: John Podmore: The justice secretary has presided over the worst deterioration in mood since Britain started building jails

• The Guardian view on prison policy: punishingly expensive

  20 Oct 2014: Editorial: Locking people up is costly but not always cost-effective. Time to think again

• Prison whistleblowers in England and Wales being threatened with dismissal

  20 Oct 2014: Tory MP Gavin Williamson attacks ‘arrogant, high-handed’ attitude to those raising concerns about safety and violence

• Ministers urged to investigate rate of prison suicides

  18 Oct 2014: Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan says prisons have become dens of violence and number of deaths is a national disgrace

• Prisons shame Britain and are not fit for purpose

  18 Oct 2014: Denis MacShane: We incarcerate far too many people without considering whether it works. The result is despair and suicide

• 'You don't ever get over it': meet the British soldiers living with post-traumatic stress disorder

  18 Oct 2014: Robert Kilgour blames a history of violence on his time in the army – and he’s not alone. As British soldiers withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq, Simon Hattenstone and Eric Allison meet the veterans still living in the line of fire

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