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UK Prison Laundries Converted Into Cells as Prison Overcrowding Crisis Leaves Jails at 98% Capacity

The UK government is converting prison laundries into accommodation to address overcrowding, with male prisons at 98% capacity.

International Business Times UK

Give prison officers the lethal weapons ‘they need’, Jenrick says

Officers currently have access to batons and synthetic pepper spray.

Evening Standard

Tories call for prison officers to be armed with guns to combat Islamist extremist threat

The prominent conservative described extremism in prisons as ‘out of control’ amid a series of attacks by inmates

Evening Standard

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Far-right activists fundraising for people jailed over UK riots

Money is being given to families of people involved in riots whom far-right groups are calling ‘political prisoners’

The Guardian - UK

‘Brutalising’ state of prisons fundamentally undermining efforts to make society safer, warns chief inspector

Chief inspector issues dire warning on state of country’s prisons as 1,700 inmates freed early to ease crisis

The Independent UK

Revealed: Just one in five prisons have enough riot officers in ‘scandalous’ shortage

Exclusive: Just 23 out of 109 prisons met their minimum ‘Tornado’ officer requirement, analysis shows

The Independent UK

All we know about how suspected terrorist Daniel Abed Khalife escaped HMP Wandsworth

Urgent manhunt is underway after Daniel Khalife escaped from HMP Wandsworth

The Independent UK

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Inquiry to establish why escaped terror suspect was not held at top-security jail

Investigation launched over escape of Daniel Khalife from category B facility, cabinet minister confirms

The Guardian - UK

Terror suspect Daniel Khalife’s escape is ‘catastrophic failure’, prison’s former head of security says

Around 30 to 44 per cent of frontline staff ‘unavailable to work’ in ‘filthy, vermin-infested’ Wandsworth prison

The Independent UK

Northern Ireland police officers ‘shocked, dismayed and angry’ after data breach (cloned)

The PSNI apologised on Tuesday following a ‘significant’ data breach involving details of thousands of officers and staff.

The Independent UK

Northern Ireland police officers ‘could be driven from homes’ as data breach declared ‘critical incident’

Terrorist claims to have accessed data will ‘increase the day-to-day pressure on officers’, expert tells The Independent

The Independent UK

Dartmoor and the right to roam in England

A ruling that members of the public have the right to wild-camp in Dartmoor National Park has been welcomed by “right-to-roam” activists who claim that swathes of England’s countryside are unfairly off limits.

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