prison overcrowding
Growing number of workers come out in support of hospitality strikes on 4 October
The BFAWU to ballot Wetherspoons workers at two pubs in Brighton.
Latest articles
Peers last night overwhelmingly rejected government plans to merge the prison, police, prosecution, probation and courts watchdogs into a single chief inspector. The House of Lords voted 211 to 98 to support Lord Ramsbottom’s amendment to the police and justice bill that would retain the five independent inspectorates, rather than merge them into one Chief… Read more »
Criminals will be held in police cells in an emergency measure introduced to deal with a bursting prison population, John Reid has announced. The home secretary today confirmed there are currently 79,819 people in jail in England and Wales, just 149 places short of full capacity. As a result, Mr Reid has ordered the implementation… Read more »
-01.png){kind=spacer}