Britain’s prison system is being “brought to its knees”, according to penal reform experts responding to a damning new report obtained by The Independent on Sunday. The soaring prison population, consistently high re-offending rates and increasing numbers of people on short sentences highlighted in the Prison Reform Trust’s dossier have produced a system that is [...]
Inmates self-harmed after being moved ‘like chess pieces’
LONDON — Senior prison bosses were under investigation on Tuesday after they were found to have shifted several “difficult” inmates between two London prisons in order to con inspectors. Read the full article here
