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In 1997 Cardiff Prison was criticised for chaining sick inmates to their hospital beds after a probe into the death of one of Cardiff's prisoners. [4] Three years later one of Cardiff's Assistant Governors was found dead after an investigation into child pornography. The manager had been arrested at the prison days earlier by detectives ...
In The Lammy Review, a report commissioned by the Conservative government and led by David Lammy MP, it was found that whilst adult prison populations are 24% BAME individuals, only 6% of prison staff were from Black and Minority Ethnic communities. This was one of the significant factors listed as the cause for mis-trust between BAME prisoners ...
The concept of incarcerating individuals as a punishment for crimes did not exist in Wales before or during the medieval period. [2] The early castles of the Welsh rulers and marcher-lords did possess dungeons, but the purpose of these facilities were for the confinement of hostages and political prisoners, people who may have committed no crime.
On 25 March 2015, 45-year-old Jason Gomez and 33-year-old Paul Wadkin lured a fellow prisoner 46-year-old Darren Flynn into a cell at HMP Swaleside and then stabbed him over 190 times with a thin black handle and a knife wrapped in material. Jason Gomez was already serving life for a previous murder committed in 2001 when he stabbed his ...
The organisation takes its name from "clink", a slang generic term for prison or a jail cell, which in turn is derived from The Clink, a historic prison in Southwark.. The first Clink Restaurant opened in 2009 at HMP High Down in Surrey, [1] when Alberto Crisci, then catering manager, identified the need for formal training, qualifications and support for prisoners in finding a job after release.
Alongside HMP Altcourse, Parc was one of the first UK prisons to be financed, designed and owned by the private sector. [4] When it first opened, Parc Prison had around 800 prisoners, accommodated in two-bed cells across four blocks. [5] From its opening, Parc Prison was beset with problems.
Four of the suicides happened before an inspection in 2014 but a more recent visit showed the prison had not learnt lessons. Peter Clarke said, "Between our last inspection in 2014 and when we went back in the middle of last year there have been four further self-inflicted deaths – all in similar circumstances, all in the early days of the ...
When prison officers reached the roof they put up a sign similar to the ones used by prisoners throughout the protest, which read "HMP in charge—no visits". [49] At 6:20 pm the remaining five prisoners were removed from the roof in a "cherry picker" hydraulic platform, giving clenched fist salutes to the press and public as they descended. [49]