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Discharged: Dead - Now the prison has to hold a memorial service for him | MARK L. Now Ian Huntley has died here is what happens next - including the provision of a mandatory 'memorial service' organised by the prison Chaplain for prisoners and staff who wish to attend.

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07.03.2026 11:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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The March 2026 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national prisons monthly newspaper, published today - prisons.org.uk/publications...

01.03.2026 13:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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The 40-page February 2026 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

02.02.2026 05:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Did you spot it?
How 'Earned Release' began by being earned by engagement with 'education, skills and training' - and then, in a click of the political fingers, whoosh, all mention of 'education, skills and training' disappeared to be replaced by just 'avoiding bad behaviour'?

31.01.2026 02:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#Converse - January 2026 edition out now.
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04.01.2026 05:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This Urgent Notification is unprecedented in severity. Drones daily deliver drugs, violent assaults, chronic understaffing, burnt out inexperienced staff, filthy living conditions, this prison that has ceased to function as a place of safe custody, let alone rehabilitation.
prisons.org.uk/news-desk

17.12.2025 03:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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The 40-page December 2025 edition of Converse, the largest circulation national monthly prisons newspaper for E&W is out now - published in print, and on in-cell technology, and on 2,500 offline laptops in 90 prisons too!
prisons.org.uk

17.12.2025 03:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

15.11.2025 06:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

03.11.2025 03:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#PrisonLawIndex2026
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#prison #prisonlaw #humanrights #prisoners

03.11.2025 03:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#TheCellCompanion2026
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#prison #prisonlaw #humanrights #prisoners

03.11.2025 03:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

27.10.2025 02:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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The Prisons Handbook 2026 - available now at pre-publication prices, with discounts for serving prisoners, prison staff, prison libraries and charities, prisons.org.uk

02.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

24.09.2025 15:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

02.09.2025 08:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

18.07.2025 06:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

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18.07.2025 01:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

10 things to help the Prisons Minister sleep at night
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09.05.2025 12:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

06.05.2025 05:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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...

01.04.2025 08:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

01.04.2025 08:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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...

04.03.2025 05:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

18.02.2025 02:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

08.02.2025 07:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#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...

08.02.2025 03:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

04.02.2025 10:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

28.01.2025 12:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

27.01.2025 08:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

27.01.2025 07:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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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

23.01.2025 08:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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