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Gang who flew £550,000 of drugs and phones into prisons using drones sentenced
They operated 55 flights over 14 months to prisons around the Midlands and the North West.
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10 people are accused of smuggling drugs into prisons
Police in the West Midlands have arrested 10 people who are suspected of using drones to smuggle drugs into jails across England.
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Nottingham prison is found to be 'fundamentally unsafe'
Inspectors say serious safety failings are putting prisoners' lives at risk at HMP Nottingham.
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11 charged with supplying prohibited items into prisons
Forces looked into the supply of drugs, weapons and other banned items which made their way into a number of the regions prisons via drones.
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Prisoner admits part in Birmingham jail riot
Men charged with taking part in prison mutiny and 'intending to overthrow authority' - the offence carries a maximum 10 year sentence.
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Birmingham prison riots: Prisoner denies mutiny
Ross Queen, 30, of Northfield, is accused of two charges of prison mutiny and one of taking a photo while in prison.
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Relatives of inmates call for more to be done to diffuse prison situation
Prisoners are ‘gasping for breath and screaming for help’, as smoke fills corridors and cells according to relatives of inmates. Some are said to be hanging out of windows calling for help as they struggle to get fresh air, as a fire remains at Winson Green Prison. Hundreds of prisoners have been rioting since 9am at the G4S-run jail, with reports of people seriously injured inside.
“My brother is screaming for help, the smoke is that thick on the landing that he can’t breathe, he said it is absolute chaos. He is screaming for help and they are not doing anything. People have been locked in their cells for hours with no food.
"People are badly injured in there, I am worried sick, like many other families, the prisoners are fearing for their lives and they need help urgently. They are barricading themselves in because they are scared of the other inmates, they need fresh air, they need to get them out.”
Another relative said her uncle was also struggling to breathe as the fire was said to have spread elsewhere around the prison.
Poll: Should prisoners be paid the living wage for work they do in prison?
A leading Birmingham criminologist has argued that prisoners should be paid the living wage for any work they do whilst in prison.
Professor David Wilson, a former jail governor, argues that the measure would make it less likely they would re-offend by 'reducing their exclusion from society’.
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Prison pen pal scheme helps to rehabilitate offenders
The prison pen pal scheme 'Prisoners' Penfriends' has had an important role to play in helping to rehabilitate convicted offenders.
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Nottingham Prison - violent, bleak and overcrowded
An unannounced visit by the Chief Inspector of Prisons to Nottingham prison found significant concerns.
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