Prisons and probation

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  Phrasing the question on prisoner votes

  6 Nov 2013: Joshua Rozenberg: Members of the parliamentary committee on prisoner voting may see a chance for political point scoring, but the next prime minister should move quickly to resolve the issue

• Defying Strasbourg ruling on prisoner voting rights risks anarchy, MPs told

  6 Nov 2013: Attorney-general Dominic Grieve warns of breach of international obligations if blanket ban on votes for convicted prisoners is kept

• Probation officers strike in protest at privatisation plans

  5 Nov 2013: Probation officers in England and Wales stage 24-hour strike against plans they say put communities at risk

• Probation and profit are incompatible

  4 Nov 2013: Letters: How are companies going to make a profit from supervising offenders, other than by employing unqualified people on lower salaries and poorer conditions?

• Serious Fraud Office launches inquiry into G4S and Serco overcharging claims

  4 Nov 2013: Investigation follows justice secretary's claims that firms overcharged on electronic tagging contracts for offenders
  

• Riot squad halts Maidstone prison unrest

  2 Nov 2013: Wing containing foreign nationals nearing the end of sentences smashed up as prisoners riot
  

• Yarl's Wood sex inquiry witness to be deported without speaking to police

  2 Nov 2013: Crucial figure in immigration centre probe held hours before appointment with investigators

• Male prisoners to wear uniforms and be banned from watching television

  1 Nov 2013: A new regime instigated by Chris Grayling aims to promote incentives and earned privileges

• Baby P: mother Tracey Connelly released from prison

  1 Nov 2013: Connelly will remain on licence for the rest of her life, and can be recalled to custody if she breaches conditions

• Prisoners are our future neighbours. So is rehabilitation such a dangerous idea?

  1 Nov 2013: Erwin James: So long as any society has a system that lets people out of prison, it is in everyone’s interests that they are let out in better shape than they were when they went in

• How to make recidivism and costs rise? Privatise probation

  30 Oct 2013: Zoe Williams: Four big firms are set to get even richer. We will be paying much more for the service, and failures are inevitable

• Vicky Pryce: 'Prison clearly does not work'

  29 Oct 2013:

  Fresh from jail, the economist and author of Prisonomics explains why the system costs too much, locks up the wrong people and does not prevent reoffending

• Yarl's Wood urgently needs more female staff, says prisons chief

  29 Oct 2013: Nick Hardwick also says male staff should be banned from entering female detainees' rooms without invitation

• Chris Grayling told to delay probation service privatisation or risk deaths

  28 Oct 2013:

  Exclusive: Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire trusts warn the rush to privatisation could have deadly consequences

• Probation and motivating people

  28 Oct 2013: Letters: Even considering delegating the important work of supervision of offenders in the community to the private sector beggars belief

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