WATCH - Our time in HMP Pentonville. Team effort - with first class producer @_claireljones_ & filmed by one of the best in the business ⁦David McIlveen⁩ .. A couple of days none of us will forget bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c0…

‘Inside the Prison Crisis’ is top item on BBC News at Ten tonight. Reporting from inside #HMPPentonville Sima Kotecha gets rare access to see first hand the chaos our #prisons are in.

Happy #NationalReadABookDay! This is our library, made up of books donated by supporters ready to be sent out to British people in prison around the world.

As bad as this is - and it is bad - this is probably not peak crisis. The worst is yet to come. #prisons

Latest piece by Venetia Menzies for The Times and The Sunday Times (link open, not currently paywalled) provides a vivid and relatable angle on sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection #IPP, and argues #resentencing is the only just option. #prisons #IPPscandal #PrivateMembersBill #LordWooley

Today is #SuicidePrevention Day. For people in prisons, especially some serving time under Imprisonment for Public Protection #IPP, today is already too late. Remind me, why can't IPPs be resentenced? #prisons #sentencing #ippscandal

10 Sept 2024: an extra 1,700 prisoners are released from prison from today. The public wants to know why it has come to this. The state of the #prisons in England and Wales. Decrepid. Overcrowded. Understaffed. Violent. Worsening by the day.

Look. It would be more cost effective to book an adult into the Savoy London than into a Cat B prison. In the same way, it would be more cost effective to put a young person into Eton College than into a custodial Secure Training Centre #STC. Tip: Invest upstream into diversion.

"I've been around prisons longer than I care to admit. In all these years I've never known things as bad as they were when this government took office," says Lord Timpson James Timpson speaking in House of Lords #prisons

HMP/YOI Hindley: illicit drug use remained a very serious problem, with 59% of prisoners testing positive in the 6 months before the review. Read our inspection report: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_report… And our media release: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/reports-p…

No one condones what the man has done. But to know what press scrutiny looks like, look at people reporting live from the court and in the tv studio. They're colleagues of the former presenter, yet report factually, accurately and without favour. cc. Dominic Casciani Sima Kotecha

Some concerning reports recently about the amount and quality of food in prisons. Food should be a pathway to rehabilitation not a barrier to it. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2024/09/food-f…

🥊 One more non-released IPP going home having been directed for release Recently sat a lengthy parole hearing that went from 10 till gone 6pm with a 20min break. It was a robust in-depth hearing for a non-released IPP. 🥊

The 2024 IMB annual report paints a dismal picture of prison life with every aspect damaged by the population crisis, says this piece from Russell Webster ✍️ includes photos by Andy Aitchison 📸 #prisons #monitoring #overcrowding

“Four custody officers at a prison where 13 inmates have died this year were arrested on the same day a Welsh government minister said the jail was "much more stable". Full story BBC Wales News⁩ ⁦BBC Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⁩ | 20 Sept 2024 | #prisons #HMPParc bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The Howard League, I'm sure you know better, you know this is happening in every UK prison.

Taking an impartial panoramic view of posts, #HiddenHeroes Day initiative fronted by Butler Trust appears to have a greater take-up than previous years. That said, it's also clear that it does not enjoy universal acceptance. #prisons #probation #HiddenHeroes.UK has work to do.

TL; DR? #PrisonStorm summary: The System Which Insists On People Turning Their Lives Around Is Utterly Incapable Of Turning Itself Around #prisons