This autumn, the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons from the US will be touring the UK. All over the world prisons are toxic environments causing social and ecological harm. Folks from the US have been organising resistance at the …
Meeting Objective: To Organize Midlands Coalition Against Prison Expansion Time: Sunday 5th August, 1pm-4pm Place: The Gap Arts Project, 498 Moseley Road, Birmingham, B12 9AE, United Kingdom Check out the Facebook Event Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE) are inviting …
Source: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/work-new-170m-glen-parva-1721250 The new £170 million prison Glen Parva is to built using a private finance deal, the Government has said. Justice minister Rory Stewart said the Treasury has given the go-ahead for a replacement for the 1970s-built former borstal …
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/26/rory-stewart-prison-minister-more-money-jails-england-wales Rory Stewart says prison population will not fall and also reveals Carillion underbid for maintenance contract. The minister for prisons has said that he would like the prison population to go down but is instead calling for more …
Source: http://www.itv.com/news/2018-06-27/plans-for-new-community-prisons-for-women-shelved/ Plans for five new community prisons for women have been shelved. The Government’s strategy for dealing with female offenders was published on Wednesday, having been re-written reportedly due to budget constraints. Justice Secretary David Gauke pledged instead to …
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/women-prison-uk-community-sentences-centres-reoffending-rates-children-funding-a8418271.html The government has scrapped proposals to create “community prisons” for women as part of a delayed strategy aiming to combat female offending. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) had pledged to build and open five new facilities by the …
Source: https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/work-on-wellingborough-s-new-prison-to-start-by-the-end-of-the-year-1-8546879 Work on building Wellingborough’s new prison is set to start towards the end of this year, according to a Government minister. HMP Wellingborough closed in December 2012 and resulted in the loss of almost 600 prison places. HMP …
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-41927657 Work to build a new prison on the site of mothballed HMP Wellingborough is expected to begin next year. A year ago the government confirmed the category C prison in Northamptonshire would be the first redevelopment site in …
This bonus interview comes direct to you from Belfast, as Heledd sits down to chat with Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh, whose incredible book ‘Language, Resistance and Revival: Republican Prisoners and the Irish Language in the North of Ireland’ documents the developments inside prisons …
https://www.scotsman.com/business/companies/commercial-property-inverness-prison-plan-takes-step-forward-1-4601304 Planning permission in principle (PPP) has been agreed for the first new prison in the north of Scotland for more than a century. HMP Highland will replace HMP Inverness, also known as Porterfield prison, which is near to the …
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-41750267 Campaigners against plans for a new prison in Port Talbot have presented a petition signed by nearly 9,000 people to the Welsh Assembly. David Rees, Labour AM for Aberavon, said the site in Baglan was “wholly inappropriate” for …
