With the maximum capacity for prisoners in England and Wales standing at just over 87,000, the available places is reported to be in the low hundreds. The system is at crisis point, and has been for some time now, and with no apparent solution to remedy this crisis The new Labour government has pledged to […]
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The latest published review of criminal defence firms has been released, and it provides for depressing reading No publicly funded service has had to endure the cuts inflicted from successive governments provided by the Conservative and Labour parties. Since 1999, legal aid for criminal cases has been slashed by an enormous 50%. The crisis within
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Nearly four in five prisons do not have enough officers trained to deal with riots as part of so-called “Tornado” squads, despite rising violence and disorder behind bars, The Independent can reveal. With the prisons crisis a major concern ahead of the general election, prison officers responded to the revelations by accusing Rishi Sunak’s government
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