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Exclusive: It'll cost millions to replace cell bells in every prison after a prisoner was found hanged and CCTV revealed he'd pressed his cell bell only for other prisoners to mute it, a system defect the coroner says must be rectified....
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Prisons.org.uk – The Definitive Independent Prisons Website The Definitive Independent Prisons Website for England and Wales - publishing The Prisons Handbook, Converse national monthly prisons newspaper, The Cell Companion, Prison Law Index and providing accr...

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New figures show the number of prison officers convicted in 2025 of misconduct in public office for having an inappropriate relationship with prisoners was the highest number in any single year since records began. Details on our News Desk
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#obituary | Mark L. #Obituary It is with profound sadness that I share the news of the death of my dear friend Bobby Cummines OBE, who has died aged 74 after being hit by a car in Warley, Brentwood. I first met Bobby in ...

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It is with profound sadness that I share the news of the death of my dear friend Bobby Cummines OBE, who has died aged 74 after being hit by a car in Warley, Brentwood.
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Discharged: Dead - Now the prison has to hold a memorial service for him | MARK L. Now Ian Huntley has died here is what happens next - including the provision of a mandatory 'memorial service' organised by the prison Chaplain for prisoners and staff who wish to attend.

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The March 2026 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national prisons monthly newspaper, published today - prisons.org.uk/publications...

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The 40-page February 2026 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national monthly prisons newspaper for E&W is out today - published in print, and on in-cell technology, and on 2,500 offline laptops in 90 prisons too!
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Did you spot it?
How 'Earned Release' began by being earned by engagement with 'education, skills and training' - and then, in a click of the political fingers, whoosh, all mention of 'education, skills and training' disappeared to be replaced by just 'avoiding bad behaviour'?

#Converse - January 2026 edition out now.
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This Urgent Notification is unprecedented in severity. Drones daily deliver drugs, violent assaults, chronic understaffing, burnt out inexperienced staff, filthy living conditions, this prison that has ceased to function as a place of safe custody, let alone rehabilitation.
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The 40-page December 2025 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national monthly prisons newspaper for E&W is out now - published in print, and on in-cell technology, and on 2,500 offline laptops in 90 prisons too!
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If you have a view on the effectiveness, credibility, future development or very existence of Independent Monitoring Boards in our prisons that you want to share - read on...

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The 40-page November 2025 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national monthly prisons newspaper for E&W is out today - published in print, and on in-cell technology, and on 2,500 offline laptops in 90 prisons too! prisons.org.uk

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The Prisons Handbook 2026 - #published!
“Essential reading, providing a comprehensive understanding of the prison system, it rightly sits in every prison library.”
Amy Rees as CEO of HMPPS - quoted from her Foreword to the 2025 edition
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The Prisons Handbook 2026 - available now at pre-publication prices, with discounts for serving prisoners, prison staff, prison libraries and charities, prisons.org.uk

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The Government is to extend Medication to Manage Problematic Sexual Arousal (MMPSA) to 24 prisons - and they've now confirmed they're seriously considering mandating MMPSA as 'treatment' in future.
Is it ethical?
Does it work?
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The 40-page September 2025 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national monthly prisons newspaper for E&W is out today - published in print, and on in-cell technology, and on 2,500 offline laptops in 90 prisons too! prisons.org.uk

Pentonville Prison: Chief inspector of Prisons issues Urgent Notification after discovering 'Prisoners Held Illegally and in Chaotic Unsafe Conditions.' Full details on our News Desk.

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10 things to help the Prisons Minister sleep at night
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The 40-page May 2025 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national monthly prisons newspaper for E&W is out today - published in print, and on in-cell technology, and on 2,500 offline laptops in 90 prisons too!
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The 40-page April 2025 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national monthly prisons newspaper for E&W is out today - published in print, and on in-cell technology, and on 2,500 offline laptops in 90 prisons too!
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35 years ago today the Strangeways Riot kicked off 25 days of violence, destruction and death across the prison estate; has Strangeways been a lesson we've failed to heed - or has it become one we have ensured could never happen again?
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The 40-packed-pages of the March 2025 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national prisons newspaper in England and Wales, is out now - prisons.org.uk/publications...

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The Independent Sentencing Review has published Part 1 of its final report that provides a comprehensive explanation of why and how prison policy isn't working.
Read the Report and an analysis of it on our News Desk
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We can now report on the 'extraordinary' fine imposed on the Ministry of Justice UK over prison inmate deaths.
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The 40-page February 2025 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national monthly prisons newspaper for E&W is out today - published in print, and on in-cell technology, and on 2,500 offline laptops in 90 prisons too!
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Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana has had his sentence altered today by a Judge at Liverpool Crown Court due to a legal technicality.
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Parole Board decision quashed for trying to shoehorn too many oral hearings into one day creating inadequate hearing times.
Access the case details and judgment via our news desk
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