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The current chief inspector is Charlie Taylor. 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 ...
Dame Anne Elizabeth Owers, DBE (née Spark; born 23 June 1947) was Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons. Owers was the fifth holder of the post, appointed in August 2001, succeeding David Ramsbotham. Her appointment was renewed in June 2006 and in March 2008. [2]
Her appointment as HM Chief Inspector of Prisons in succession to David Strang was announced by the Scottish Government in May 2018 and she took office the following July. In recognition for her work in rehabilitation and reintegration, she has received the Lord Justice Woolf award for Resettlement and the Infrastructure Partnerships Australia ...
His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland was created following a Committee of Inquiry into the prison system in the United Kingdom, whose report was published in 1979. One of the recommendations of its report was the creation of a new type of Prisons' Inspectorate, independent of the Prison Service.
Ramsbotham was HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales from 1 December 1995 [30] [31] to 2001 when he was succeeded by Anne Owers CBE. As Chief Inspector of Prisons, he had a, at times, strained relationship with Home Secretaries Michael Howard and Jack Straw, and this contributed to his contract not being continued for the full eight years that had originally been possible (an ...
His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) says 790 probation officers left the service in England and Wales over the last year (to the end of Sept 2024). This is a slight decrease (0.8% ...
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons in Scotland: 1979: David Strang: June 2013 HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (England and Wales) 1981: Peter Clarke: February 2016 HM Chief Inspector of Crown Prosecution Service (England and Wales) [4] 1986: Kevin McGinty [5] April 2015 HM Chief Inspector of Fire Services (Scotland) 2005: Martyn Emberson [6] January ...
In August 2018, G4S's contract to run Birmingham Prison, awarded in 2011, was revoked for allowing the prison to fall into a state of crisis, and after Peter Clarke, the Government's Chief Inspector of Prisons, reported that he found squalid conditions, pervasive drug use, extraordinary levels of assaults and ineffectual management. He said it ...