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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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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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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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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 - 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
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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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#sentencing #prison #overcrowding
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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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#inquest #fined #moj #prison #deaths #coroner #prisoner
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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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#parole #quashed #inadequacy #impropriety #prison #prisoner
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First successful legal challenge to the operation of Prison Rule 46 segregation for terrorists and alleged extremist groomers - access the case via our news desk
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#rule46 #prison #segregation #terrorism #extremism
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Latest figures show there were almost 3,000 fires in the prisons of #England and #Wales in 2024 - eight every day - with some prisons having none at all, while others had over 130.
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#fire #prison #safety
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The Ministry of Justice names 13 prisons currently designated as 'Death in Custody Cluster Sites' who are being given additional support to reduce the number of deaths within them.
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#deathsincustody #prison #deaths #prisoners #safety
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#IMB Chair appears in court charged with #misconduct in public office and conspiracy to convey #drugs into a prison after an investigation by NWROCU and the HMPPS counter-corruption unit - two prisoners and two others have also been charged.
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CCRC Chair, Helen Pitcher, has resigned saying: "I'm a scapegoat over the Malkinson case"
Read her resignation letter.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#ccrc #justice #resignation #malkinson #criminalcasesreviewcommission #miscarriage #prison #prisoner #malkinson #appeal
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'National Security Threat': Drones dropping drugs and weapons into Maximum Security Prisons
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#drugs #guns #weapons #prisons #nationalsecurity
#ThePrisonOracle The 40-page January 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!
#prisonoracle #prisons
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