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PHIL WHEATLEY
The Prison Service Director General is interviewed on the BBC's Breakfast with Frost, and uses the opportunity to call for more prisons.
BBC 17/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/3158107.stm
BBC News Online 17/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3157873.stm
Express 17/08/03 http://www.express.co.uk/story.html?story=7&r=106113125417959011
HOME AFFAIRS COMMITTEE CALLS FOR GROUP 4 TO LOSE THEIR PRISON CONTRACTS
Following Group 4's announcement that they intend to sue Bedforshire Police over the Yarls Wood riot, the Labour Chair of the Home Affairs Committee is "outraged".
Telegraph 17/08/03 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F08%2F
DEMAND FOR SEGREGATION IN ULSTER PRISONS
Loyalists have called for segregation in Northern Ireland prisons.
BBC News Online 15/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3154081.stm
PRISON CONSTRUCTION THREATENS WILD FLOWERS
Plans for a new prison in West Lothian have been opposed by local residents who claim that the prison would be built on a meadow, home to hundreds of rare orchids.
BBC News Online 14/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3151399.stm
FOURTH DEATH THIS YEAR AT STYAL
A 39 year-old Liverpool woman has died at the Cheshire prison.
BBC News Online 14/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/3150381.stm
Guardian 15/08/03 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1019145,00.html
Telegraph 15/08/03 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F08%2F
Times 15/08/03 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-779997,00.html
PRISON REFORM TRUST HIGHLIGHT PRISON FAILURES
The Trust has published it's annual report measuring success and failure against Key Performance Indicators, highlighting the record number of suicides in 2002.
BBC News Online 13/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3148225.stm
BBC News Online 13/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/dorset/3146455.stm
BBC News Online 13/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/3146515.stm
BBC News Online 13/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3146005.stm
BBC News Online 13/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/3145877.stm
BBC News Online 13/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3145851.stm
Guardian 13/08/03 http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,8150,1017838,00.html
Sky News 13/08/03 http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-12717316,00.html
Times 13/08/03 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-775986,00.html
'GOODWILL' PREVENTED DISTURBANCE
An IMB report into Norwich prison has criticised the jail, which also houses young offenders.
Ananova 12/08/03 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_808587.html
BBC News Online 12/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3145711.stm
SEX OFFENDERS 'GROOMING' YOUNG PRISONERS
A report from HMIP has raised concerns over young prisoners housed with sex offenders at Holme House Prison on Teeside.
Ananova 12/08/03 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_808308.html
BBC News Online 12/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3142845.stm
BBC News Online 12/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3144459.stm
Community Care 12/08/03 http://www.communitycare.co.uk/articles/article.asp?liarticleid=41734&liS
Guardian 12/08/03 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1016635,00.html
FIRE AT BARLINNIE
Twelve people are treated for smoke inhalation after a fire at Barlinnie prison in Glasgow.
BBC News Online 11/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3144459.stm
GOVERNOR SAYS NEW WING ISN'T ENOUGH
The governor of La Moye prison in Jersey has said that a new wing will not solve the prison's problems.
BBC News Online 11/08/03 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3139819.stm
Voluntary Sector
The Prison Reform Trust this week published their annual findings on the prison service's successes and failures measured against their own Key Performance Indicators. (See news, above)
PRT Press Release 13/08/03 http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/docs/A Measure of Success.doc
Full Report 13/08/03 (PDF) http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/pdffiles/AMeasureofuSccessKPIs.pdf
Parliament
Parliament is now in Summer Recess and will return on 8th September. For further information visit the UK Parliament website - click here.
Prison Population Statistics
The population of prisons in England and Wales on Friday 8 August 2003 was as follows:
This Week Last Week Last Year
Total 73,497 73,672 71,572
The population of prisons in Northern Ireland on Friday 8 August 2003 was as follows:
This Week Last Week Last Year
Total 1,102 1,123 1,022
The population statistics for Scotland are not published online by the Scottish Prison Service but the average population at any one time is 6,500.
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