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Suicides double in five years, five ambulance calls out a day to a prison in Bristol because of drug use, and a sixth death in one London prison alone in the past year. And if it couldn’t get any worse it does. Today, yet another damning report by the prison inspectorate into a failing prison which will test Liz Truss’s resolve on how quickly she can respond.
A two-year investigation into the Metropolitan Police’s treatment of female, black, minority ethnic and gay officers has uncovered a culture of fear.
Muslim activist Dr Salman Butt has launched legal action against the Home Secretary after he was named in a Government press release about hate preachers.
One insider describes her as a formidable negotiator with great attention to detail – someone who, perhaps surprisingly, “cares more about the little people than the big ones”.
Hate crime across the UK had gone up 46% in the two weeks either side of the Brexit vote, compared to the same period last year.
Police officers in England and Wales are being dismissed for misconduct at the rate of more than one a day.
Tomorrow the Spycops public inquiry will address whether the state has a duty to reveal to all parents if their dead child’s identity was taken and used in the name of undercover policing.
The Home Secretary has delivered a powerful warning to police officers that Hillsborough is a touchstone for the future of policing.
The safety of prisons in England and Wales is getting worse, with deaths, self-harm, violence and disorder continuing to rise.
A 14 year old boy in a girl’s body, with multiple mental health problems, was found dead in one of the most expensive mental health care establishments in the country.
A report out today accuses Health ministers and NHS chiefs of fuelling migration numbers by employing nurses on the cheap from outside the EU to meet annual shortages.
The public inquiry into undercover policing is being asked to look at whether the Met deceived judges.
The scale of prison violence has emerged from new figures which show riot squads were called into jails on a daily basis last year.
“..the most serious failings concerned the way in which allegations of torture were managed.” It’s the most critical observation by the borders and immigration chief inspector. For David Bolt’s report into the Home Office’s asylum casework system comes as Theresa May’s department prepares to respond Stephen Shaw’s damning review of the detention of asylum seekers.
The chief inspector of prisons, Nick Hardwick, has warned that the availability of synthetic psychoactive drugs presents the most serious threat to the safety and security of jails.
