The Police Race Action Plan, which orders police to treat minorities differently, was developed and launched under the Boris Johnson Conservative government.
Chris Philp and Kemi Badenoch were ministers in that government.
I want to hear a sincere public apology from them.
The prison population rose this week, it now stands at 85,911.
There are 4,136 more people in prison than the system is designed to hold.
howardleague.org/prison-watch/
This is not the whole idea of prison. Interaction such as ‘Family contact’ for instance is a pillar of rehabilitation. People need something/someone(s) to go out to.
@mwilliamsthomas The whole idea of being in prison is that you don't interact with people on the outside. Otherwise what's the point of being there? This guy is a mass murderer, who knows what damage he could do?
Take HMP Swaleside. The Chief Inspector has just walked out of this 1,100 bed jail, describing to ministers conditions so violent he could not stay. Yet in this highest risk environment HMPPS has managed to deliver just *19* individual stab vests to frontline staff. 5/
“A former prison governor accused John Swinney of leaving Scotland without a female-only prison by refusing to implement a landmark legal ruling.
Rhona Hotchkiss warns “women’s rights are being breached” because ministers have failed to act on a Supreme Court judgment in April that sex is defined by biology in the Equalities Act.
Hotchkiss, who ran Cornton Vale in Stirling until 2017, said: “If the prison service doesn’t get these biological males out of women’s prisons they cannot call these women’s prisons.”
"The ruling was quite clear that the Equality Act sex means biological sex”
Some photos from outside Downview prison today, protesting against the government’s continued refusal to put male prisoners in the male estate
#NoMenInWomensPrisons@NoMinWPrisons
@melindiscott@James_Treadwell Criminal Justice system is like the sewage system. Public don’t want to know what happens after the toilet is flushed in the courts, or talk about it in polite company. There are literal attempted murders on Officers and blades are ubiquitous. It’ll take a death, and even then…
If seeing the police take down the Golders Green suspect you are in awe of their bravery, remember prison officers often have to take weapons like knives off convicted violet offenders like him, often never using a strike. They still do not have stab vests. And nobody sees it.
Fully support the kicks to the head by the Police to disarm and achieve compliance in high risk life threatening situation.
If we could apply the same support to prison officers who walk the landings with just a baton, when most prisoners have access to knives, that’d be great.
How to Trigger a Prison Officer:
Step 1: Give them 3.5% pay rise and tell them they have to wait until June to receive it.
Step 2: Give MPs 5% pay rise (to £98,599, around £390 extra a month) and give it to them straight away.
🚨 £1bn UK prison Drug economy🚨
The number is almost too big to fathom.
1 million seconds = 12 days
1 billion seconds =31 YEARS
£1bn is roughly the same as EVERY officers COMBINED annual wages.
Prisoners are making a fortune inside, and it’s absolutely out of control.
🍺 2 Life Sentences 🍺
AMAZING news this week that the oxygen thief who attacked 2 prison officers on hospital escort was handed two life sentences for wounding with intent and attempted wounding with intent!
Not forgetting poss of an off weapon and attempting to escape custody
Point is ‘rational choice theory’ means risk has to outweigh reward. But if the punishment is so small will this increase offending and increase the prison population?
🤯 The ‘Release Paradox’ 🤯
Are early releases causing a rise in population?
Scotland:🏴
Release point 30% of sentence
Eligibility for release on tag 15% of sentence.
So a 1 year = 8 weeks in custody before possible release on tag.
SPS now at record overcrowding.
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