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Anyone interested in behaviour and culture, regardless of the institution type, should have a look at this HMI Prisons report into prisons that have built cultures that encourage good behaviour justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/wp-…

Opportunity to join our outstanding team at HMI Prisons. You need to be able to: get into the detail, weigh up evidence and make judgements while working at pace, give honest feedback, write well, travel the country, often working long hours away from home - in a fascinating job

Today is🌍World Art Day 2024🎨and we want to highlight the positive impact art can have in prisons #WorldArtDay .

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'At a time when the picture in prisons is especially bleak, it is good to remember that some truly impressive work is done in the most difficult of circumstances.'

Read our response to HMI Prisons thematic review on behaviour: howardleague.org/news/hope-and-…

How do prisons create cultures that encourage prisoners to make better use of their time in custody?

Our new thematic review 'Improving behaviour in prisons' explores this.

Read the report here: justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/ins…

And see our media release: justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/med…

See my latest blog on the effect of illegal drugs in prison.

Responding to the announcement that HMYOI Cookham Wood will be closed and repurposed as an adult establishment, Charlie Taylor said:

On The News Agents yesterday with Jon Sopel and emily m talking about HMP Hindley where more than 50% of random drug tests on prisoners were positive. Drugs=Debt=Violence
The challenge is not just reduce supply, but to reduce demand for drugs with meaningful, purposeful activity.

'The government had to act. Prisons were becoming too full'.

Chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor, tells Mark Austin why the govt has decided to release some offenders two months early from prison.

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Yesterday we published a report which found vulnerable girls restrained and stripped by teams of adult men.

We are absolutely clear staff were acting to save the girl's life or prevent serious harm, and they should never have been put in a position where this was necessary.

Our report out today on Wetherby young offender institution

Our report out on Wetherby YOI today - a girl was stripped on two occasions by male officers to prevent her from self-harming - despite this being an entirely predictably pattern of behaviour.
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Welcome to His Majesty’s new Chief Inspector of Probation, Martin Jones CBE. justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprobation/m…

Depressing article in FE Week - reflects the concerns that HMI Prisons and Ofsted frequently raise. A huge cost to the taxpayer with negligible results. feweek.co.uk/prison-educati…

ICYMI, earlier this month, we published a report revealing the shocking delays transferring acutely mentally unwell men and women from prison to hospital.

A London coroner has added their concerns: standard.co.uk/news/uk/mental…

Really interesting thread from Natasha Porter OBE on HMP & YOI Parc

Just spent the day at Parc Young Offenders Institute in Bridgend. It was, as expected, really excellent.
Heaps in common with the best schools and other organisations in that there was a really aligned staff culture and consistently high expectations. Some other reflections…🧵

“Raw sewage comes through the drains when it rains, prison officers have to wear Wellington boots.”

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor on the dire state of UK jails and what the gov’t are - or are not - doing to fix the issue.

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Report out today on HMP Bedford - 'On E wing, the smell of mould in one cell was overpowering, with the walls damp to the touch, while the underground segregation unit was a disgrace. Here, problems with the drainage mean that on very wet days, raw sewage covered the floor'