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‘Beefed up’ organised crime unit to target prison gangs in England and Wales

Prisons minister says team’s work is being expanded, as he voices concern about drone use and corruption of officers

The Guardian - UK

Prisons minister aims to close one women’s jail in England and Wales

Exclusive: Timpson says government plans to reverse rise in female inmates and use alternative forms of punishment

The Guardian - UK

Prisoners could be serving you Greggs under new offender work scheme

The new prisons minister has previously said that two-thirds of offenders should not be in prisons

The Independent UK

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Greggs and Greene King among firms backing drive to get offenders into work

Leaders from major employers will be among those to sit on new employment councils in regions across England and Wales.

Evening Standard

‘90 people have taken their own lives already. How many more do they want?’ The Labour peer taking on the scandal of ‘99-year’ sentences

Indeterminate sentences were scrapped in 2012 – but thousands of prisoners are still serving them, often for petty crimes, with no hope of release. Could there now be hope of resentencing?

The Guardian - UK

Inmates bitten by rats and venomous spiders as state of prisons laid bare in report

Appalling conditions caused by years of underfunding, mismanagement and neglect, inspector warns

The Independent UK

Labour mulls scheme to alert rape and stalking victims if perpetrator is nearby

James Timpson, the prisons minister, will investigate scheme in Spain that gives option of real-time alert

The Guardian - UK

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Peers say not reforming IPP sentences could cause another Post Office scandal

Ministers told they risk more miscarriages of justice by not backing bill to replace indefinite jail terms with fixed ones

The Guardian - UK

Prisoners held on indefinite terms should have sentences reviewed, peers told

Lord Tony Woodley says people still being held on abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences are subjected to miscarriages of justice.

Evening Standard

Prison self-harm at record high as deaths, assaults and staff attacks surge in overcrowding crisis

A prisoner self-harmed once every seven minutes and was assaulted once every 18 minutes in the last year, figures reveal

The Independent UK

In the Netherlands, we’re closing our emptying prisons. What can other countries learn from how we did it?

The Dutch prison population has fallen by more than 40% – and awareness of the harms of harsh sentencing could explain why, says Dutch writer and journalist Renate van der Zee

The Guardian - UK

Strangeways jail put in emergency measures over ‘catastrophic’ levels of drugs and violence

Inspectors ‘shocked’ at level of decline at ‘fundamentally unsafe’ and vermin-infested Manchester prison

The Independent UK

Britain faced ‘total breakdown of law and order’ without early release of prisoners, minister claims

Prisons minister James Timpson has defended the government’s controversial scheme to free some prisoners after serving 40 per cent of their sentence

The Independent UK

Bike Apprenticeship Helps Break UK Reoffending Cycle

Cameron Moseley hopes never to return to jail thanks to a pioneering scheme in London that aims to cut reoffending by training former prisoners to become bicycle mechanics.

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The Guardian - UK

Prison isn’t working for women, Labour says, as it unveils plans for alternatives

Shabana Mahmood tells conference she wants more help in community for offenders and fewer cases going to court

The Guardian - UK

Starmer eyes ex-Tory minister David Gauke for sentencing review role

The former Conservative justice secretary is on a shortlist to lead a policy review that could herald radical reforms

The Conversation

Prison is a disaster for women – here’s what would work instead

The early days of the new Labour government have given prison reform advocates reason to be hopeful. Two announcements – the appointment of James Timpson as prisons minister and an expanded early release programme – are promising steps towards repairing a criminal justice system that has been devastated by cuts…

The Guardian - UK

Labour urged to scrap £4bn Tory mega-jails plan and fund rehabilitation

Exclusive: Former chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick says money would be better spent preventing crime

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Ex-offenders can become successful entrepreneurs – here’s what the prisons minister should do to make it happen

James Timpson, former CEO of the high street cobbler and keycutter that bears his family name, was appointed this summer as the UK’s new minister for prisons, probation and reducing re-offending.

The Guardian - UK

John Lewis trials repair service in partnership with Timpson Group

Five stores will offer to alter, clean or mend clothes in service marketed as a way to help prevent waste

The Conversation

The UK’s prisons aren’t just overcrowded – they need to be better designed

The UK government has taken urgent action to address the prison capacity crisis, announcing early release for several thousand non-violent offenders.

The Guardian - UK

The rich were led to believe they were different. Those days are numbered

Wealth is a privilege, and with it comes the obligation of paying tax to benefit society

The Guardian - UK

Could Britain solve its prisons crisis by going Dutch?

After the UK prisons minister praised the system in the Netherlands, experts there say the reality is more complex

The Guardian - UK

James Timpson is a sign of hope for a rational prisons policy

Letters: Readers on the mammoth task facing the new prisons minister to reform the criminal justice system

The Guardian - UK

Starmer ‘shocked’ about prisons crisis as early release scheme prepared

Government to announce terms which could free more than 20,000 inmates in coming months to manage capacity

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