Prisons

The Government is refusing to reveal how many complaints have been made by inmates and guards

Keir Starmer was applauded for appointing a prisons minister who believes only a 'third of inmates should actually be in jail'. Where was this mantra when the PM declared rioters should feel 'the full force of the law'?

The Justice Minister has said the Government will 'make sure' that anyone jailed over the riots has a 'prison place waiting for them'

I recently helped organize a housing and homelessness study tour of London (England). Here’s a ‘top 10’ overview of what we learned:https://nickfalvo.ca/affordable-housing-and-homelessness-in-london-england/

The salaries of specialist probation officers who manage sex offenders are being cut - and 77% say they plan to leave the job

National Audit Office figures show MoJ way off target of reducing court case backlog by more than 14,000 cases and more than 6,000 are two years or more old

IPP sentences were abolished more than a decade ago - but despite legislative changes hundreds of inmates remain in jail indefinitely and many are taking their own lives in despair

HMP Dartmoor was set to close due to its underfunded and crumbling state before a Government U-turn in 2021

These are enough people still locked up who've served their sentences to fill four UK prisons, according to new figures

Inmates at HMP Dartmoor are being moved to other prisons due to potentially dangerous levels of cancer-causing radon detected in some cells. The Duke of Cornwall is their landlord