A good move but months later than it should have been granted. There are obviously multiple considerations but there has been a repeated habit of forcing Ukraine to fight back with one hand behind it’s back before belatedly relenting.
Long overdue (!)
The scenes from inside HMP Pentonville on tonight's BBC News are truly shocking: www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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The last prisons minister said “one urgent notification is too many”
But this the 7th in the last 2 years
Since Nov 22, we’ve had urgent notifications for:
🚨HMP Exeter
🚨HMP Bristol
🚨HMP Woodhill
🚨HMP Bedford
🚨HMPYOI Cookham Wood (now repurposed as a men’s prison)
🚨HMP Wandsworth
🚨HMP Rochester
Rochester prison has been given an urgent notification after a decade of “systemic failure and decline”
🚩 squalid, decrepit conditions & rat infestations
🚩 rising violence & self-harm
🚩 widespread illicit drug use
🚩 dearth of activity to prepare men for release
www.theguardian.com/society/arti...