🧵 Published today, our briefing ‘Grasping the nettle’ offers the Labour government a range of policy options that could deliver a lasting solution to the prison capacity crisis.
🗎 Download it here: https://t.co/jEflbHUwCr
#LiftTheLidOnPrisons
This week, the government promised to spend £100m to fix the problems in just one prison – Wandsworth, built in the mid-19th century.
Today we share new research that explores the need for a clear strategy on Victorian prisons: https://t.co/CalyilVbr0 @VictorianPrison
Agencies welcome the news that the Bibby Stockholm will be closed as Dame Angela Eagle MP announced: ‘We are determined to restore order to the asylum system, so that it operates swiftly, firmly and fairly.’ @refugeecouncil
https://t.co/5WJBKFqnCP
"I felt like I was just drifting in a space of nothingness, with no end in sight. And at one point I started to really not care anymore" - Andrew Morris on the impact of serving an IPP sentence.
Hear more from Andrew and @UNGRIPP's Donna Mooney here: https://t.co/cLX5f1X3nc #IPP
The Victims and Prisoners Act has received Royal Assent, but what will this mean for people serving IPP sentences?
Find out here: https://t.co/J8BmnREgL6
#VictimsAndPrisonersAct#JusticeForIPPs@UNGRIPP#IPP
Alongside more than 50 specialist organisations, we've written to party leaders demanding a standalone Secretary of State for Women and Girls in the next Cabinet.
Women and girls across Britain are facing a crisis of unmet need and together, we're #CallingSOS.
Read our letter:
The inadequacy of investment, and the desperate impact of overcrowding, loom large in almost every inspection report from @HMIPrisonsnews and in updates from @_Imbs_.
On our blog, we look at the state of prisons today: https://t.co/5OJMIjQBSe
#LiftTheLidOnPrisons
Read our blog to see some of the new measures outlined in the Victims and Prisoners Act, including:
▪️Changes to IPP sentences
▪️Changes to Home Detention Curfew eligibility
▪️Interference with the Parole Board and disapplication of the Human Rights Act.
https://t.co/J8BmnREOAE
As reports suggest we could run out of prison space in a matter of weeks, there has never been a better time to ask: 'What are prisons for?'
Join us for our next SPOTLIGHTS event on Tuesday 11 June. Book your free place below: https://t.co/80pDr0B6U1
#LiftTheLidOnPrisons
"Generally 70% of recalls are for non compliance...that can be missing appointments, your probation officer not knowing where you are...we've had people who have been in hospital and been recalled" - Donna Mooney of @UNGRIPP on the issue of recall.
https://t.co/cLX5f1XBcK #IPP
The prison population in England and Wales stands at 87,284. There are 107 more people in prison today than there were last week.
By the prison service's own measure of safe and decent accommodation, there is room for only 79,615 people, the population is 7,669 above this level.
🚨Today the Rwanda Plan is in the Supreme Court for it's final verdict.
🙅♀️Whatever happens we will not let our morality be reckoned by the political ambitions of the divisive few.
🎗️We stand in solidarity with all those who are fighting this abhorrent policy.
#StopRwandaPlan
Thanks to your solidarity, lots of tents have started to arrive 😊
50 today and more coming tomorrow
We're leaving our #SolidarityHub again now on our cargo bike to get them where they are most needed.
You can donate here:
https://t.co/adQ2fSAH66
We spend about £50k a year to lock up each prisoner then give them £50 to get lost on release. Then we get confused why they quickly return to prison.
https://t.co/wgAW5VyVoc
Shadow ministers will be faced with a clear choice - vote to save many thousands of lives, including thousands of children, or vote to save their careers... the outcome of this vote will expose the truth about our political class.