A former prison officer at HMP The Verne had an affair with a convicted rapist, breaching professional trust. The relationship highlights serious security failures inside the jail.

#PrisonScandal #OfficerMisconduct #JusticeSystem #UKPrisons #HMPTheVerne

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‘Keffiyehs seized, left to die’: Inside the Palestine Action hunger strike Activists plan to take legal action against the UK prisons that allegedly mistreated them.

Potential #Legal action against #UKPrisons

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The grim truth behind Ian Huntley’s murder: ‘He wasn’t killed for justice’ Ian Huntley was behind bars for the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2003 (Picture: PA/Shutterstock) Soham killer Ian Huntley has become one of thousands of inmates killed inside jail walls – and the public agrees ‘justice has finally been served’. Huntley, who was behind bars for the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002, was attacked inside a workshop at HMP Frankland last week. He was bludgeoned in the head with a metal pole, leaving him ‘brain dead with no expectation of survival’. And the British public is delighted. Comments online read ‘karma has arrived’ and ‘justice has been served’. But the prison officers who worked at HMP Frankland, nicknamed ‘Monster Mansion’ due to the infamy of its inmates, say the attack was not done just justice for Huntley’s two young victims. ## Sign up for all of the latest stories Start your day informed with Metro's **News Updates** newsletter or get **Breaking News **alerts the moment it happens. Instead, it was done for ‘notoriety within the prison and the press’. ## ‘Forget what you know about prison hierarchies’ Ian Huntley started his life sentence at HMP Frankland in 2003 (Picture: PA) One ex-officer at HMP Frankland **told Metro** : ‘At best, the attack happened because they had got into a spat about the washing machine. ‘But the grim reality is these people like hurting other people. They wanted to get into the papers again disguised as punishing someone. ‘The romanticisation of prison attacks has gone too far. Seeing people on Facebook go “the other prisoners will see to them” just p***es me off. Because they are just among their own kind.’ One of the most common beliefs about the prison hierarchy is those who have harmed children are ‘at the bottom of the food chain’ and subject to frequent assaults. ‘But that just isn’t true, it’s all about personality types and how beefy you are,’ the ex-officer said. ‘When I was at Frankland there was a 6ft brute who raped two children. But he was the most feared because he was this big strong bloke who used to bully the other inmates.’ HMP Frankland in County Durham, which has been nicknamed ‘Monster Mansion’ (Picture: Tom Wilkinson/PA Wire) The prison is home to the UK’s worst criminals, ranging from those involved in the London and Manchester bombings, and more recently Wayne Couzens who raped and murdered Sarah Everard. In 2012, child rapist Mitchell Harrison was tortured and disembowled inside Frankland by two prisoners Michael Parr and Nathan Mann. When exiting his cell, they nonchalantly told officers ‘there’ll be one less for the count tonight’. Child rapist Mitchell Harrison, 23, who was found disembowled inside his cell at HMP Frankland (Picture: North News & Pictures Ltd) But the pair, who planned to eat Harrison’s body, were already serving long sentences for murder and attempted murder. ‘But if you have already got a life sentence, you really don’t have anything left to lose,’ the officer said. ‘And the two officers walked in on the scene, have been left with horrendous PTSD.’ ## Family plead: ‘He is as bad as Huntley’ The prisoner who has been named as a potential suspect in Huntley’s killing is triple murderer and rapist Anthony Russell, 43, who is serving a whole life order for his crimes. Even his family have pleaded with people online to think of him as ‘the scumbag he is’, rather than a hero. One close relative told the Daily Mail: ‘As far as we’re concerned, they’re as bad as each other. Anthony Russell, 39, murdered three people and raped a pregnant woman as she lay dying (Picture: West Midlands Police) ‘Anthony is no hero for doing this. He committed a very bad crime himself – that’s why he’s on the same prison wing as Huntley.’ Huntley has faced a number of other attacks during his time inside jail, despite being segregated from the main population as a ‘vulnerable prisoner’ (VP). VP status is given to ‘big names’ whose crimes dominated the news, and those who committed serious sexual or terror offences. In 2010 robber Damien Fowkes slashed Huntley with a home-made weapon, causing a ‘severe, gaping cut to the left side of his neck’ with a 7in (18cm) wound which required 21 stitches. The ex-officer added: ‘He also wore sunglasses for a while after getting undiluted cleaning fluid thrown in his eye. ‘But because he was such a notorious name, people were after him so they can get their moment of fame on social media and the chance to be called a hero. ‘But it’s bad enough for th epoor families trying to get on with their lives, who are now seeing Huntley’s face again whenever they look at the news.’ ******Get in touch with our news team by emailing us atwebnews@metro.co.uk.****** **For more stories like this,****check our news page**. Comment now Comments Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google Add as preferred source

Huntley was killed over a 'washing machine spat', that place is not one of honour and our preconceptions of prison life are mostly wrong.

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#IanHuntley #UKPrisons #UKCrime

Yesterday Kate Herrity discussed her award-winning book, ‘Sound, Order and Survival in Prison’, on BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed.

#Criminology #UKPrisons #AuralEthnography

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Palestine Action activist Muhammad Umer Khalid has ended his hunger and thirst strike after being hospitalised with organ failure.

Campaigners say most of his demands were met following talks with prison authorities, and he has begun a supervised re-feeding process.

#UKPrisons #PalestineAction

8 #PalestineAction activists are currently on #hungerstrike in #UKprisons & in critical condition. the mainstream #press is completely ignoring their situation whilst they're on remand for over a year without trial on false terrorist charges

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#press #media #BreakingNews #news

UK prisons: 100K inmates by 2030, £57K/year each - total £6B+ crisis!
-> Early releases hit 38K, overcrowding 98%, 262 freed by MISTAKE (up 128%).
-> Time for sentencing shake-up?

#UKPrisons #JusticeFail #OvercrowdingCrisis #PrisonsCrisis

Twelve more prisoners released in error, with two still missing, says Lammy The releases happened in the past three weeks, coming on top of 91 prisoners who were freed by mistake between April and October.

12 more prisoners released in error:
www.bbc.com/news/article... how can Lammy defend this? It's like blaming a late-running bus because it's not solar-powered. Surely the first thing u check before releasing a prisoner is "should we be actually be allowing this person to leave prison"? #UKprisons

Palestine Action Prisoner Hunger Strikes, Elbit Systems and UK Complicity In Gaza (with Francesca)

latest episode of #TheFinalStraw is highlighting the #PoliticalPrisoners on #hungerStrike in #UKprisons over their illegitimate treatment on terrorist charges for their resistance against the state's genocidal actions in #Palestine by allowing the tech & #armsindustry to profit from mass murder..

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Is this were America the escaped prisoners would be running for Congress or something, so at least there's that.

If the prisons are so full, then maybe don't fill them with political prisoners and folk who stole from the rich, start there perhaps before releasing the sex offenders? Fucking […]

Mistakenly released prisoner Billy Smith turns himself in Smith, 35, was released in error from Wandsworth prison on same day he was jailed for fraud

Lol, Labour are lucky most of these guys hand themselves in...

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#WandsworthPrison #UKPrisons #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Labour

Oh look Jenrick blaming the Govt for the mess they left them with . . .
Nothing new there then
#Lamm #Jenrick #UKPrisons

Less Keystone Cops, more Life of Brian I like to think. #Kebatu #UKprisons #wato

Foreign prisoners in UK jails reach highest level since 2013 Foreign prisoners now account for 10.6 per cent of all sex offenders in prison, with 1,731 jailed for sexual offences, a figure up nearly 10 per cent in the past year.

UK speeds up deportation of foreign prisoners to ease overcrowding

#UKImmigration #ForeignPrisoners #DeportationPolicy #MinistryOfJustice #UKPrisons #PrisonReform #ImmigrationNews #UKLaw #JusticeSystem #CriminalJustice

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#PrisonTelecoms #StayConnected #UKPrisons #ComingSoon

جیلوں کے بحران سے نمٹنے کے لیے 1,000 سے زائد قیدیوں کی رہائی کا فیصلہ، ایسا کیوں اور کس جگہ ہوا ہے؟

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#UKPrisons #PrisonCrisis #InmateRelease #JusticeReform #UKNews #pakistanmemes

HMP Parc: Messages reveal Bridgend prison staff violence towards inmates Messages include jokes about someone who was said to be at risk of taking their life.

#UKPrisons

"Some 17 inmates are known to have died at Parc in 2024 - more than any other prison."

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Read our new blog by Dr Victoria Williamson ‘Tackling moral injury in UK prison staff’ - addressing moral injury among UK prison staff.

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#MoralInjury #UKPrisons

Why are women still being sent to prison as ‘a place of safety’? | Eva Wiseman Reports are revealing the true harm done by incarcerating women under the guise of protecting them, writes Eva Wiseman

' ...the self-harm rate is 5,785 incidents per 1,000 prisoners, more than eight times higher than in men’s prisons.'
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None of the prisons allowed women to wash their underwear in a washing machine and instead they had to wash it by hand in a small bowl in their cell, a policy not found in men's prisons.

In an interview with the Guardian last month, the prisons minister, Lord Timpson, said the government planned to reverse the increase in the number of women being sent to jail. Instead, hundreds of female offenders could be tagged and sent to addiction and rehabilitation centres, he said. Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, said the report was “shocking” and “a wake-up call” for her department. “We must do things differently which is why – as part of our Plan for Change to make our streets safer – we have launched a new women’s justice board to reduce the number of women in prison, and better support those who must still be imprisoned.”

Warning: News article mentions self-harm.

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Normally, I avoid criticizing prisons. But just WHAT is going on over there in the UK?

#WorldNews #UK #prisons #UKprisons #crime #LawandOrder

Climate Prisoners Are Exposing the Dire State of Prison Healthcare | Novara Media Just Stop Oil supporters spoke to Novara Media about their medical neglect in prison, which in one case had potentially life-threatening consequences.

"The treatment of climate protesters’ health is just part of a litany of incidents that underscore the severely inadequate state of healthcare in prison"

#UKPrisons #Prisons #ClimateProtesters #Healthcare

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