Why Robert Maudsley, UK’s ‘most dangerous prisoner’, is on hunger strike over PlayStation
Britain’s most dangerous prisoner, Robert Maudsley, has gone on a hunger strike inside his isolated cell at the UK’s ...
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Prison crisis ’caused by politicians desperate to appear tough on crime’
B-Wing at HMP Liverpool, also known as Walton Prison (Picture: Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images) Prison are close to running out of room because ... after the UK’s prison system came ...
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How UK prison gangs actually work, according to a former member
Leroy Smith was a member of the African Crew prison gang in the UK during the early 2000s. Smith became a hit man and a drug dealer for the African Crew during his time as a category A inmate in ...
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UK’s prison overcrowding crisis fuelled by ‘tough on crime’ talk, Labour’s new tsar finds
The UK’s prison overcrowding crisis has been fuelled by politicians‘ attempts to seem “tough on crime”, a major government review has found. The Independent Sentencing Review report is a ...
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The countries that could solve the UK prisons crisis
Could Texas hold the answer to Britain's prisons crisis? Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood and prison minister James Timpson will visit the US state next month to learn about its points-based ...