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Ofsted publishes new inspection framework for prison education
Ofsted's renewed framework for inspecting education in prisons and young offender institutions in England puts more weight on reading, literacy and preparing prisoners for work.
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HMP High Down safer and busier but drugs remain the main threat, inspectors find
Inspectors found encouraging progress at the south London category C prison, with more time out of cell and less violence, but warned about drones, poor living conditions and offender management.
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Drug use and self-harm remain high at HMP Altcourse, inspectors find
A follow-up review of HMP Altcourse found leaders had responded positively to earlier criticism, but drug use, violence and self-harm had not fallen.
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Recalls now outnumber releases as Nacro urges a more proportionate system
Recalls to prison have risen by 136 per cent since 2016/17, and the charity says reform would free thousands of places in an overcrowded estate.
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GPS-tagged restriction zones for people on licence to start in October
The Justice Secretary says some people leaving prison could be confined to areas only a few miles wide, with recall for anyone who breaches the boundary.
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Court of Appeal frees man after ruling his IPP sentence was unlawful
Niki Haycock has served 20 years on an indeterminate sentence the court says should never have been imposed, and a senior judge has called for others in his position to be found.
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Millsike monitors say new prison opened unready, understaffed and unsafe
The Independent Monitoring Board’s first annual report on HMP Millsike criticises HMPPS, the POA and operator Mitie, and warns that pressure to fill cells could undo recent progress.
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Eddie Richardson, jailed after the 1967 ‘Torture Trial’, dies aged 90
The south London figure, the last of the 1960s ‘gangsters’, served 23 years in prison over two sentences and took up portrait painting behind bars.
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Ombudsman criticises Hindley over drugs and missed checks before prisoner’s death
Dylan Woodhead died 10 days after his transfer to HMP Hindley. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman found he obtained drugs with ‘apparent ease’ and that staff missed roll checks.
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Court of Appeal increases sentence for drone plot targeting HMP Highpoint
The Attorney General referred the case as unduly lenient, and the man’s prison term rose from two years and two months to three years and four months.