Not exact matches
Bishop James also raised concerns about the 37 % surge in the
number of serious assaults against
prison staff.
The definitions remained fairly stable until in 2004 an efficiency review conducted by Sir Peter Gershon led to the reclassification of a large
number of civil servants (mainly
prisons, courts, and immigration
staff) out of administration costs.
She made the basic arithmetical observation that none of this was deliverable while we were stuffing
prisons full of more and more people and cutting
staff numbers.
The economic case for the cuts to the
prison service - particularly but not exclusively due to its impact on
staff numbers - is nonsensical and pathetically short - sighted.
The
number of full - time public sector
prison staff fell by 29 % between March 2010 and December 2014.
Director of the
Prison Reform Trust, Juliet Lyon, said: «Slashing prison budgets while warehousing ever greater numbers overseen by largely inexperienced staff has come at a dangerous
Prison Reform Trust, Juliet Lyon, said: «Slashing
prison budgets while warehousing ever greater numbers overseen by largely inexperienced staff has come at a dangerous
prison budgets while warehousing ever greater
numbers overseen by largely inexperienced
staff has come at a dangerous cost.
«I'm afraid that it is inconceivable that we could impose the additional operational burden on our
staff of carrying out detailed assessments of an unlimited
number of parcels coming into
prisons.
«To determine the
numbers of
staff engaged in this activity for the periods in question could only be determined by asking each
prison to calculate these
numbers using historic records.
We're developing a new Corruption Prevention Strategy to deal with the small
number of corrupt
staff who allow contraband in our
prisons.
It had been claimed that there was a trend in private
prisons to increase electronic surveillance of inmates in order to reduce
staff numbers.
Then the
prison service overcrowds
prisons and cuts officer
numbers, making it impossible for those
staff that do remain to deliver decent teaching.
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While the state inspector general's report detailed the factors that contributed to the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility last June, a new report from a prisoner advocacy group levels a
number of abuse claims against
staff at the maximum - security
prison that allegedly occurred in the wake of the escape.
While stressing that the first order of business is to capture the escapees and secure the
prison, Gallivan said
staff numbers will likely be one of the topics discussed as people dissect how Matt and Sweat escaped.
With the
number of prisoners with severe mental illness in
prison increasing, efforts need to be made by all
prison staff to ensure that this segment of the
prison population has appropriate mental health care and safety.»