Prison Reform

Call for child prisoner inquiry
4th Novemeber 2005

The treatment of a mentally ill teenager who kept harming herself in prison has prompted calls for a public inquiry into her care. The girl, in jail for an assault, was hospitalised 20 times in two years for self-harm from September 2003
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Turning the screws
2nd November 2005

I am an ex-con. If, during one of my spells behind bars (from 1960 to 2000), you had asked me my opinion of the Prison Officers’ Association (POA), I would have said its members, the people who stood guard over us every day, were the biggest enemies of all those fighting for prisoners to be treated with humanity
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