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More Questions than Answers on Fire Safety in Prisons
@robroballen.bsky.social reveals that the 116 prisons in England saw 534 fire related injuries in the last financial year with most fires started by vapes.
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@robroballen.bsky.social reveals that the 116 prisons in England saw 534 fire related injuries in the last financial year with most fires started by vapes.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...
More Questions than Answers on Fire Safety in Prisons
Prison fires and subsequent injuries remain of serious concern according to the recently published 2024-25 Annual Report of the Crown Prem...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
More Questions than Answers on Fire Safety in Prisons
@robroballen.bsky.social reveals that the 116 prisons in England saw 534 fire related injuries in the last financial year with most fires started by vapes.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...
@robroballen.bsky.social reveals that the 116 prisons in England saw 534 fire related injuries in the last financial year with most fires started by vapes.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...
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Which Way for Youth Custody?
@robroballen.bsky.social analyses constructive options for a better way forward
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/whic...
@robroballen.bsky.social analyses constructive options for a better way forward
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/whic...
Which Way for Youth Custody?
Radical stuff from the Childrens Commissioner in her Longford Lecture this week- urging that Young Offender Institutions are closed now, ...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Which Way for Youth Custody?
@robroballen.bsky.social analyses constructive options for a better way forward
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/whic...
@robroballen.bsky.social analyses constructive options for a better way forward
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/whic...
A busy week in respect of youth custody in England and Wales Some thoughts on the best way forward.
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reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/whic...
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
A busy week in respect of youth custody in England and Wales Some thoughts on the best way forward.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/whic...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/whic...
The latest prison fire safety report is out - but it raises as many questions as it answers. "It may not seem the highest priority just now, but issues like fire safety never are until they are".
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...
More Questions than Answers on Fire Safety in Prisons
Prison fires and subsequent injuries remain of serious concern according to the recently published 2024-25 Annual Report of the Crown Prem...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The latest prison fire safety report is out - but it raises as many questions as it answers. "It may not seem the highest priority just now, but issues like fire safety never are until they are".
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/11/more...
Reminded of this correction today
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Reminded of this correction today
Latest update: MoJ Permanent Secretary tells Public Accounts Committee they hope to reopen the site in March 2026. Also says spec for faulty doors was the same as has been used in other secure units. Which begs the question- are they a risk to the safety of residents and staff in those places too?
October 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Latest update: MoJ Permanent Secretary tells Public Accounts Committee they hope to reopen the site in March 2026. Also says spec for faulty doors was the same as has been used in other secure units. Which begs the question- are they a risk to the safety of residents and staff in those places too?
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
IPP ended in 2012, but 1,000+ people are still serving indefinite sentences in prison.
Andrew Morris & Matthew Parris discuss why people are still held under IPP & how we can rid ourselves of its legacy once and for all.
🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/33eb2a
IPP ended in 2012, but 1,000+ people are still serving indefinite sentences in prison.
Andrew Morris & Matthew Parris discuss why people are still held under IPP & how we can rid ourselves of its legacy once and for all.
🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/33eb2a
October 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
IPP ended in 2012, but 1,000+ people are still serving indefinite sentences in prison.
Andrew Morris & Matthew Parris discuss why people are still held under IPP & how we can rid ourselves of its legacy once and for all.
🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/33eb2a
IPP ended in 2012, but 1,000+ people are still serving indefinite sentences in prison.
Andrew Morris & Matthew Parris discuss why people are still held under IPP & how we can rid ourselves of its legacy once and for all.
🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/33eb2a
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📢 New episode of the Transform Justice Podcast out tomorrow!
This week we were joined by Matthew Parris and Andrew Morris to discuss the injustice and long-term consequences of IPP sentences.
Follow the podcast and tune in from tomorrow morning:
➡️https://podfollow.com/the-transform-justice-podcast
This week we were joined by Matthew Parris and Andrew Morris to discuss the injustice and long-term consequences of IPP sentences.
Follow the podcast and tune in from tomorrow morning:
➡️https://podfollow.com/the-transform-justice-podcast
October 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
📢 New episode of the Transform Justice Podcast out tomorrow!
This week we were joined by Matthew Parris and Andrew Morris to discuss the injustice and long-term consequences of IPP sentences.
Follow the podcast and tune in from tomorrow morning:
➡️https://podfollow.com/the-transform-justice-podcast
This week we were joined by Matthew Parris and Andrew Morris to discuss the injustice and long-term consequences of IPP sentences.
Follow the podcast and tune in from tomorrow morning:
➡️https://podfollow.com/the-transform-justice-podcast
HMP Stafford housing many older prisoners has longstanding legionella issue, with shower blocks often closed.
Local watchdog says there's insufficient funding to provide a permanent fix.
HSE should pay a visit imo
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Local watchdog says there's insufficient funding to provide a permanent fix.
HSE should pay a visit imo
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October 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
HMP Stafford housing many older prisoners has longstanding legionella issue, with shower blocks often closed.
Local watchdog says there's insufficient funding to provide a permanent fix.
HSE should pay a visit imo
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Local watchdog says there's insufficient funding to provide a permanent fix.
HSE should pay a visit imo
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Achievement of the week: Leaders at G4S Oakhill Secure Training Centre have acted to ensure that children have adequate meals and access to food to prevent them feeling hungry
files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/5028...
What's more the kitchen has been deep cleaned and is now a hygienic environment...
files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/5028...
What's more the kitchen has been deep cleaned and is now a hygienic environment...
October 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Achievement of the week: Leaders at G4S Oakhill Secure Training Centre have acted to ensure that children have adequate meals and access to food to prevent them feeling hungry
files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/5028...
What's more the kitchen has been deep cleaned and is now a hygienic environment...
files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/5028...
What's more the kitchen has been deep cleaned and is now a hygienic environment...
As ever, I learned a lot during this podcast - not only about the serious failings in our current approach to women in conflict with the law but how to go about creating a more just and effective system. Do have a listen to two very well informed contributors sharing their thoughts and experience.
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Should stealing baby milk to feed your child lead to prison? Dr Sarah Waite & Lucy Campbell discuss how the prison system is failing women & what could be done to improve society’s response to women in crisis.
🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/32d390
Should stealing baby milk to feed your child lead to prison? Dr Sarah Waite & Lucy Campbell discuss how the prison system is failing women & what could be done to improve society’s response to women in crisis.
🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/32d390
September 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
As ever, I learned a lot during this podcast - not only about the serious failings in our current approach to women in conflict with the law but how to go about creating a more just and effective system. Do have a listen to two very well informed contributors sharing their thoughts and experience.
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Well worth a listen. Women’s prisons are genuinely appalling and getting worse. They receive very little press coverage despite being more violent than men’s prisons and having a self-harm rate equivalent to around 6 incidents per prisoner per year
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
Should stealing baby milk to feed your child lead to prison? Dr Sarah Waite & Lucy Campbell discuss how the prison system is failing women & what could be done to improve society’s response to women in crisis.
🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/32d390
Should stealing baby milk to feed your child lead to prison? Dr Sarah Waite & Lucy Campbell discuss how the prison system is failing women & what could be done to improve society’s response to women in crisis.
🎧Listen now: pod.fo/e/32d390
September 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Well worth a listen. Women’s prisons are genuinely appalling and getting worse. They receive very little press coverage despite being more violent than men’s prisons and having a self-harm rate equivalent to around 6 incidents per prisoner per year
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Young Adults in Custody- Yet Another Challenge for Prisons @robroballen.bsky.social on violent and out of control HMP Swinfen Hall
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/youn...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/youn...
Young Adults in Custody- Yet Another Challenge for Prisons
Failings in secure institutions for children are all too familiar, but a report out today paints an equally disturbing picture of life i...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com
September 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Young Adults in Custody- Yet Another Challenge for Prisons @robroballen.bsky.social on violent and out of control HMP Swinfen Hall
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/youn...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/youn...
No go areas for staff too scared to challenge young prisoners, uncontrolled meal queues leaving some with no food. Grim watchdog report on HMP Swinfen Hall.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/youn...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/youn...
Young Adults in Custody- Yet Another Challenge for Prisons
Failings in secure institutions for children are all too familiar, but a report out today paints an equally disturbing picture of life i...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com
September 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
No go areas for staff too scared to challenge young prisoners, uncontrolled meal queues leaving some with no food. Grim watchdog report on HMP Swinfen Hall.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/youn...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/youn...
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Inspectors blame Ministry of Justice for infrastructure failings resulting in the closure of the Secure School. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-bi...
(A bit) More on the Secure School
We learned last month t hat the Oasis Restore Secure School was to close temporarily following a monitoring visit by Ofsted which raised c...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Inspectors blame Ministry of Justice for infrastructure failings resulting in the closure of the Secure School. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-bi...
Inspectors blame Ministry of Justice for infrastructure failings resulting in the closure of the Secure School. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-bi...
(A bit) More on the Secure School
We learned last month t hat the Oasis Restore Secure School was to close temporarily following a monitoring visit by Ofsted which raised c...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Inspectors blame Ministry of Justice for infrastructure failings resulting in the closure of the Secure School. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-bi...
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As fires in prisons rise, efforts to ensure safety are limited and slow. Todays watchdog report on HMP Styal is a case in point.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...
More on Fire Risks in Prisons
Last night I finished watching the excellent if harrowing BBC series on the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster- a tragic and catastrophic case stud...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As fires in prisons rise, efforts to ensure safety are limited and slow. Todays watchdog report on HMP Styal is a case in point.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...
As fires in prisons rise, efforts to ensure safety are limited and slow. Todays watchdog report on HMP Styal is a case in point.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...
More on Fire Risks in Prisons
Last night I finished watching the excellent if harrowing BBC series on the 1988 Piper Alpha disaster- a tragic and catastrophic case stud...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
As fires in prisons rise, efforts to ensure safety are limited and slow. Todays watchdog report on HMP Styal is a case in point.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/more...
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Prison Fire Safety Delay ?
@robroballen.bsky.social on how HMPPS is still failing to make all prison cells safe from fire reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/pris...
@robroballen.bsky.social on how HMPPS is still failing to make all prison cells safe from fire reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/pris...
Prison Fire Safety Delay ?
21,000 currently occupied prison places -almost one in four- do not meet fire safety standards, MPs have been told . In a letter sent in J...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Prison Fire Safety Delay ?
@robroballen.bsky.social on how HMPPS is still failing to make all prison cells safe from fire reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/pris...
@robroballen.bsky.social on how HMPPS is still failing to make all prison cells safe from fire reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/pris...
One in four prison cells dont meet fire safety standards and 6,000 still wont by end of 2027.
The red line about not using non compliant cells after that deadline no longer looks so red.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/pris...
The red line about not using non compliant cells after that deadline no longer looks so red.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/pris...
Prison Fire Safety Delay ?
21,000 currently occupied prison places -almost one in four- do not meet fire safety standards, MPs have been told . In a letter sent in J...
reformingprisons.blogspot.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
One in four prison cells dont meet fire safety standards and 6,000 still wont by end of 2027.
The red line about not using non compliant cells after that deadline no longer looks so red.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/pris...
The red line about not using non compliant cells after that deadline no longer looks so red.
reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/09/pris...
Didnt expect much in the way of sunsets in Norfolk but got a good one in Sheringham
August 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Didnt expect much in the way of sunsets in Norfolk but got a good one in Sheringham
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The single justice procedure has been used extensively to prosecute Covid rulebreakers - but was this really a fair way of dealing with the issue?
@kirstybrimelow.bsky.social discusses in the latest episode of the Transform Justice Podcast ⬇️
🔗🎧Catch up on the full episode now: pod.fo/e/30221c
@kirstybrimelow.bsky.social discusses in the latest episode of the Transform Justice Podcast ⬇️
🔗🎧Catch up on the full episode now: pod.fo/e/30221c
August 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The single justice procedure has been used extensively to prosecute Covid rulebreakers - but was this really a fair way of dealing with the issue?
@kirstybrimelow.bsky.social discusses in the latest episode of the Transform Justice Podcast ⬇️
🔗🎧Catch up on the full episode now: pod.fo/e/30221c
@kirstybrimelow.bsky.social discusses in the latest episode of the Transform Justice Podcast ⬇️
🔗🎧Catch up on the full episode now: pod.fo/e/30221c
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Will the first Secure School be the last?
@robroballen.bsky.social on the multiple failings in the Children's and Young People's Secure Estate.
www.russellwebster.com/will-the-fir...
@robroballen.bsky.social on the multiple failings in the Children's and Young People's Secure Estate.
www.russellwebster.com/will-the-fir...
Will the first Secure School be the last?
Rob Allen on the multiple failings in the Children's and Young People's Secure Estate.
www.russellwebster.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Will the first Secure School be the last?
@robroballen.bsky.social on the multiple failings in the Children's and Young People's Secure Estate.
www.russellwebster.com/will-the-fir...
@robroballen.bsky.social on the multiple failings in the Children's and Young People's Secure Estate.
www.russellwebster.com/will-the-fir...
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The latest episode of the Transform Justice Podcast explores the ins and outs and failings of the controversial single justice procedure.
Here @penelopegibbs.bsky.social discusses one particularly shocking case ⬇️
🎧🔗Catch up on the full episode now: pod.fo/e/30221c
Here @penelopegibbs.bsky.social discusses one particularly shocking case ⬇️
🎧🔗Catch up on the full episode now: pod.fo/e/30221c
August 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The latest episode of the Transform Justice Podcast explores the ins and outs and failings of the controversial single justice procedure.
Here @penelopegibbs.bsky.social discusses one particularly shocking case ⬇️
🎧🔗Catch up on the full episode now: pod.fo/e/30221c
Here @penelopegibbs.bsky.social discusses one particularly shocking case ⬇️
🎧🔗Catch up on the full episode now: pod.fo/e/30221c