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November 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Got something to say?
If you have a view on the effectiveness, credibility, future development or very existence of Independent Monitoring Boards in our prisons that you want to share - read on...
If you have a view on the effectiveness, credibility, future development or very existence of Independent Monitoring Boards in our prisons that you want to share - read on...
#ThePrisonOracle
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
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
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
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
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
The Prisons Handbook 2026 - #published!
“Essential reading, providing a comprehensive understanding of the prison system, it rightly sits in every prison library.”
Amy Rees as CEO of HMPPS - quoted from her Foreword to the 2025 edition
prisons.org.uk
“Essential reading, providing a comprehensive understanding of the prison system, it rightly sits in every prison library.”
Amy Rees as CEO of HMPPS - quoted from her Foreword to the 2025 edition
prisons.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The Prisons Handbook 2026 - #published!
“Essential reading, providing a comprehensive understanding of the prison system, it rightly sits in every prison library.”
Amy Rees as CEO of HMPPS - quoted from her Foreword to the 2025 edition
prisons.org.uk
“Essential reading, providing a comprehensive understanding of the prison system, it rightly sits in every prison library.”
Amy Rees as CEO of HMPPS - quoted from her Foreword to the 2025 edition
prisons.org.uk
#ThePrisonOracle
The Prisons Handbook 2026 - available now at pre-publication prices, with discounts for serving prisoners, prison staff, prison libraries and charities, prisons.org.uk
The Prisons Handbook 2026 - available now at pre-publication prices, with discounts for serving prisoners, prison staff, prison libraries and charities, prisons.org.uk
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#ThePrisonOracle
The Prisons Handbook 2026 - available now at pre-publication prices, with discounts for serving prisoners, prison staff, prison libraries and charities, prisons.org.uk
The Prisons Handbook 2026 - available now at pre-publication prices, with discounts for serving prisoners, prison staff, prison libraries and charities, prisons.org.uk
#ThePrisonOracle
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?
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
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?
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
September 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
#ThePrisonOracle
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?
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
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?
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#ThePrisonOracle
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
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
September 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
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
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
Pentonville Prison: Chief inspector of Prisons issues Urgent Notification after discovering 'Prisoners Held Illegally and in Chaotic Unsafe Conditions.' Full details on our News Desk.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
July 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Pentonville Prison: Chief inspector of Prisons issues Urgent Notification after discovering 'Prisoners Held Illegally and in Chaotic Unsafe Conditions.' Full details on our News Desk.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
10 things to help the Prisons Minister sleep at night
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May 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
10 things to help the Prisons Minister sleep at night
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#ThePrisonOracle
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!
prisons.org.uk
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!
prisons.org.uk
May 6, 2025 at 5:51 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
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!
prisons.org.uk
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!
prisons.org.uk
#ThePrisonOracle
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!
prisons.org.uk/publications...
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!
prisons.org.uk/publications...
April 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
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!
prisons.org.uk/publications...
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!
prisons.org.uk/publications...
#ThePrisonOracle
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?
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
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?
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
April 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
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?
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
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?
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#ThePrisonOracle
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...
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...
March 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
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...
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...
#ThePrisonOracle
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#sentencing #prison #overcrowding
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#sentencing #prison #overcrowding
February 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#sentencing #prison #overcrowding
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#sentencing #prison #overcrowding
#ThePrisonOracle
We can now report on the 'extraordinary' fine imposed on the Ministry of Justice UK over prison inmate deaths.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#inquest #fined #moj #prison #deaths #coroner #prisoner
We can now report on the 'extraordinary' fine imposed on the Ministry of Justice UK over prison inmate deaths.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#inquest #fined #moj #prison #deaths #coroner #prisoner
February 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
We can now report on the 'extraordinary' fine imposed on the Ministry of Justice UK over prison inmate deaths.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#inquest #fined #moj #prison #deaths #coroner #prisoner
We can now report on the 'extraordinary' fine imposed on the Ministry of Justice UK over prison inmate deaths.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#inquest #fined #moj #prison #deaths #coroner #prisoner
#ThePrisonOracle
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!
prisons.org.uk/publications...
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!
prisons.org.uk/publications...
February 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
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!
prisons.org.uk/publications...
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!
prisons.org.uk/publications...
#ThePrisonOracle
Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana has had his sentence altered today by a Judge at Liverpool Crown Court due to a legal technicality.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana has had his sentence altered today by a Judge at Liverpool Crown Court due to a legal technicality.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
February 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana has had his sentence altered today by a Judge at Liverpool Crown Court due to a legal technicality.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana has had his sentence altered today by a Judge at Liverpool Crown Court due to a legal technicality.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#ThePrisonOracle
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#parole #quashed #inadequacy #impropriety #prison #prisoner
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#parole #quashed #inadequacy #impropriety #prison #prisoner
January 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
#ThePrisonOracle
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#parole #quashed #inadequacy #impropriety #prison #prisoner
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#parole #quashed #inadequacy #impropriety #prison #prisoner
The difference between lived experience & academic research is a simple one; the former requires lessons are learnt from true knowledge, the latter's need for further research prevents it from ever reaching a conclusion
It's only when the latter yields to the former, that real progress is possible.
It's only when the latter yields to the former, that real progress is possible.
January 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The difference between lived experience & academic research is a simple one; the former requires lessons are learnt from true knowledge, the latter's need for further research prevents it from ever reaching a conclusion
It's only when the latter yields to the former, that real progress is possible.
It's only when the latter yields to the former, that real progress is possible.
#ThePrisonOracle
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#rule46 #prison #segregation #terrorism #extremism
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#rule46 #prison #segregation #terrorism #extremism
January 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#rule46 #prison #segregation #terrorism #extremism
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
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#rule46 #prison #segregation #terrorism #extremism
#ThePrisonOracle
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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#fire #prison #safety
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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#fire #prison #safety
January 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#ThePrisonOracle
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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#fire #prison #safety
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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#fire #prison #safety
#ThePrisonOracle
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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#deathsincustody #prison #deaths #prisoners #safety
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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#deathsincustody #prison #deaths #prisoners #safety
January 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#ThePrisonOracle
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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#deathsincustody #prison #deaths #prisoners #safety
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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#deathsincustody #prison #deaths #prisoners #safety
#ThePrisonOracle
#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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
January 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#ThePrisonOracle
#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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk
#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.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk