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Staff says reports of abuse by inmates are not taken seriously by management, leaving them feeling vulnerable <\/p>
More than a third of investigations into assaults against prison staff are dropped before the end of the process, according to Ministry of Justice (MoJ) data.<\/p>
Speaking to the Observer<\/em>, officers working in several different prisons <\/a>said they felt management did not take abuse against them by inmates seriously and that they were frequently told to \u201cgrow up\u201d and \u201cdeal with it\u201d.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a><\/li> Exclusive: Rights group expresses concerns as it emerges US spy tech company has been lobbying UK ministers<\/p> The US spy tech company Palantir has been in talks with the Ministry of Justice about using its technology to calculate prisoners\u2019 \u201creoffending risks\u201d, it has emerged.<\/p> The proposals emerged in correspondence released under the Freedom of Information Act which showed how the company has also been lobbying new UK government ministers, including the chancellor, Rachel Reeves.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a><\/li> Ministers told they risk more miscarriages of justice by not backing bill to replace indefinite jail terms with fixed ones<\/p> Peers have said the government is failing to deal with a miscarriage of justice akin to the Post Office scandal, after ministers refused to back legislation that would give new sentences to thousands of prisoners jailed indefinitely.<\/p> James Timpson, the prisons minister, said the 2,964 people currently serving indeterminate sentences would in future have a better chance of being released, with more regular reviews of their readiness every six months.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a><\/li> Exclusive: Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail, told he must wait months to learn if he is even eligible for compensation<\/p> Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, says the Ministry of Justice has left him \u201cto rot\u201d after telling him he is likely to have to wait months before learning if he is even eligible for compensation.<\/p> Malkinson had his conviction overturned last year<\/a> after he was wrongly convicted of a 2003 rape in Greater Manchester.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a><\/li> Exclusive: Previously unpublished official data shows Raac found at 235 DfE sites<\/p> Hundreds of schools in England are still at risk of collapse from crumbling concrete, according to previously unpublished figures.<\/p> Official data, which the Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) found had been wrongly withheld by the Conservative government, confirmed the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) at 235 Department for Education (DfE) sites.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prisons & Probation – Latest News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purdonlaw.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purdonlaw.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purdonlaw.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purdonlaw.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purdonlaw.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/purdonlaw.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/purdonlaw.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purdonlaw.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}