Publication
Prison Service Journal 259
This edition of Prison Service Journal explores the simultaneous challenges faced by the prison system in both living with, and recovering from, the coronavirus pandemic.
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Covid-19, poverty and criminalisation
The COVID-19 pandemic in the UK has had a dramatic impact on household debt and financial security.
News
Watch the video: preparing for future pandemics in prisons
You can now watch the video of the third and final webinar in our series on Covid-19 in prisons, held yesterday.
Comment
A 19th century solution to a 21st century problem
More than a quarter of all prisoners in England and Wales are held in prisons built in the Victorian era.
Comment
An inspector calls
News this week that the prisons inspectorate has resumed full inspections is very welcome.
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Quite worked up
A new report from the government’s scientific advisors on COVID-19 in prison is very clear.
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The pandemic in prisons could be ended in a day
Up to 15 March, there have now been 15,472 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in prisons, and 130 COVID-related deaths (105 confirmed or suspected to be due to COVID).
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The political barriers to prisoner vaccination
When the coronavirus crisis hit last year, many of us were deeply worried about the prospect of its spread through the prison system, and the severe illness and death that would follow in its wake.
News
Watch the video: COVID-19 in prisons
Take a look at the video of yesterday's webinar, 'COVID-19 in prisons: strategies for preventing infection and death'.
Comment
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in our prisons
Firstly, it needs to be said that the whole population of the UK has suffered because of the COVID-19 pandemic and this article in no manner holds the opinion that those in prison should be treated as a special cohort.
Those in prison are there having been sentenced by a court of law to suffer the loss of freedom for crimes committed. However, prisoners are there to serve out their sentence and not die whilst...
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It felt like neglect
"I don’t think I’ll even let him come back up during this lockdown. It felt like neglect."
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Doing everything thing that we can?
This week the UK passed the grim milestone of over 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.