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The Scottish Ministers may also refer specific prison-related matters to the Chief Inspector for him to report on. The Inspectorate carries out a regular inspection of Scotland's prisons (including the privately run prisons). Each of Scotland's 16 prisons is normally subject to a full inspection every three years.
Unannounced inspections at Brixton and The Mount prisons in March found that most of the 1,716 inmates at both sites were locked up for 22 hours a day and more on weekends.
Much of the work of the Inspectorate is concerned with the production of inspection reports of two sorts: inspections of individual probation providers; and thematic reports on the handling of aspects of probation work such as race equality, or drug treatment orders.
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons is appointed by the Justice Secretary from outside the prison service for a period of five years. The post was created by royal sign-manual on 1 January 1981 and established by the Criminal Justice Act 1982 on the recommendation of a committee of inquiry into the UK prison service under Justice May.
In its most recent report (published 4 January 2017), HM Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP) commended the prison on its excellent regime and outcomes, in particular in relation to its education and training work. HMIP found HMP Whatton to be “overwhelmingly safe”, and despite incidents of prisoner self-harm increasing in the period leading up ...
In February 2005, an inspection report from His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons condemned The Mount Prison, claiming that the jail's drug problem was out of control and threatened the security and safety of prisoners. According to the report, nearly half of the inmates said they felt unsafe, 25% had been victims of bullying, and another 44 ...
A further inspection report in September 2008, again praised Swaleside for being a safe prison with good staff-prisoner relations. The report also highlighted improvements in the prisons anti-bullying, suicide and self-harm prevention arrangements. However the report again criticised the amount of time prisoners spent in their cells, with a ...
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.