Scottish prisons are significantly less violent than jails in England and Wales, with lower rates of inmate aggression, according to statistics released by the Scottish parliament there were 73% fewer outbreaks of violence.
Tag: Prison Reform
Four dead in four weeks at Nottingham prison
Four inmates have died at Nottingham Prison in the past four weeks, the BBC has learned. A source, who wanted to remain anonymous, said three deaths were suicide and one was drugs-related, but the causes have not been confirmed.
Torture victims were wrongly imprisoned in UK, high court rules
Hundreds of victims of torture have been wrongly locked up in immigration detention centres in the United Kingsom, a high court judge has ruled, following a challenge by seven survivors of serious abuse.
The American prison system revisited
In Solitary, his new book (University of California Press) about prisons, prisoners and their keepers, Terry Allen Kupers has his eyes on readers who aren’t prisoners and who have probably rarely if ever been locked up behind bars.
The death penalty debate
When is the death penalty right to use? We’ve asked ourselves this on the editorial board many times and never agree. When is a crime so egregious that a person, a community or a state can justify the death penalty?
Prison to wellbeing to education and work – transforming lives
Non-Indigenous Australians are incarcerated at around 200 per 100,000 adults but Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander adults are incarcerated at 2,330 per 100,000 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander adults. It’s beyond any justification.
Jury concludes neglect contributed to death of Dean Saunders
An inquest jury found that “neglect” contributed to the death of a young father who died in HMP Chelmsford after being taking into custody when he was in severe mental health crisis.
First death in immigration detention 2017 / 3rd in five weeks
Just a month following the two deaths in immigration detention centres (Morton Hall and Colnbrook) in December 2016 another death has occurred at Morton Hall. This time by suicide on Wednesday 11th January 2017.
