29 March 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Britain’s first titan-sized prison gets green light

source: The Guardian
published: 27 March 2015

The contract to build Britain’s first titan prison holding more than 2,100 inmates has been signed just days before next Monday’s deadline, when parliament officially dissolves for the general election.

But Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, has failed to get approval in time for his other flagship prison project, a 320-place “secure college” or supersized youth jail costing £80m, which was to be the first of a network to replace the current system of youth offender institutions and secure training centres.

5 October 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Rikers Island, an end to solitary confinement of children

source: Solitary Watch
published: 1 October 2014

The New York City Department of Correction (DOC) has plans to minimize the solitary confinement of 16 and 17 year olds on Rikers Island. This according to an internal memo obtained by the New York Times, as reported in an article published earlier this week.

The revelation comes on the heels of a three-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the findings of which were released in an August report by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan.

29 July 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Four suicides at ‘crisis’ prison HMP Ranby

source: BBC News
published: 24 July 2014

A jail in Nottinghamshire where four inmates killed themselves in less than a year has been described as a “prison in crisis” in a damning report.

HMP Ranby was found to be “unsafe” with high levels of violence, the HM Inspectorate of Prisons report said. The situation at the jail near Worksop has “deteriorated significantly” since the last inspection in 2012, it said.