tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post7849114513882902895..comments2024-03-28T23:10:52.046+00:00Comments on On Probation Blog: Bureaucracy or Commercialisation?Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-52841412560573005542015-09-24T01:10:35.408+01:002015-09-24T01:10:35.408+01:00FROM TWITTER: -
" Amanda @outofsync8 25m25...FROM TWITTER: -<br /><br />" Amanda @outofsync8 25m25 minutes ago<br /><br />@Andrew_S_Hatton @Elsie2127 @lankelangley @WomensPrisonsUK @JohnMcNallyMP <br /><br />8 hour op took twice as long as thought, but all good tonight. <br /><br />https://twitter.com/outofsync8/status/646832250143830016 "<br /><br />Andrew_S_Hattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09115192522317353139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-34545361623308598702015-09-23T21:08:17.964+01:002015-09-23T21:08:17.964+01:00I made that comment. Thankyou for getting in touch...I made that comment. Thankyou for getting in touch.Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-81992271769611167892015-09-23T17:14:52.968+01:002015-09-23T17:14:52.968+01:00Hello - as someone else has said these sorts of si...Hello - as someone else has said these sorts of situations are often not as simple as they may appear and I can't go into the individual circumstances. All I can say is that it was not about money. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-52648120006452764222015-09-22T19:25:13.647+01:002015-09-22T19:25:13.647+01:00Still begs the question tho', of why it took a...Still begs the question tho', of why it took a public statement on a media blog before the CRC resolved an issue that is its bread and butter work ie handling transfer in requests. Mind you, I am not surprised. I know from personal experience that if a matter gets to the ears of the CRC parent company that could result in loss of credibility to them then things happen very quickly indeed. Sad but true.<br />Deb Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-23151521208276641262015-09-22T15:49:50.656+01:002015-09-22T15:49:50.656+01:00Prison inspectors have called for a review of the ...Prison inspectors have called for a review of the entire youth detention system after detailing routine violence at a unit where teenage groups armed with home-made weapons targeted lone victims and stamped on their heads.<br /><br />Cookham Wood young offenders’ institute has seen a sharp increase in children being taken to hospital, including many with head injuries from violent attacks, according to a report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons.<br /><br />In six months, the unit had seen more than 150 fights and attacks – nearly one for every inmate - with specially-sharpened cutlery and heavy items put inside socks used as violent weapons. A search of one wing had found 15 such improvised weapons.<br /><br />Attacks on staff had also increased while the prison authorities were so overwhelmed with intelligence reports about violence and weapons that hundreds were not acted on.<br /><br />Some children were too frightened to come out of their cells amid an atmosphere of intense intimidation with one boy subjected to a “kangaroo” court during a night visit by inspectors. More than 40 per cent of the boys aged 15-18 held there said that they felt unsafe.<br /><br />Despite the level of violence, inspectors found the disciplinary system in disarray with some cases of violent behaviour unlikely to be dealt with because of a backlog of some 200 incidents.<br /><br />Force had been used against boys 400 times in six months, compared with 282 in the run up to the last report in 2014. Inspectors said that in one case, a boy was kicked by an officer after he refused to leave a room after a review was carried out into why he had self-harmed inside the prison.<br /><br />The uptick in violence has come despite falling numbers of teenagers in prisons to about 1,000 across England and Wales that inspectors said pointed to wider problems across the prison estate.<br /><br />Two years ago inspectors reported that gang violence was out of control at Feltham, one of the five units that detain under-18s. The falling numbers have left the units dealing with some of the most serious youth offenders in the country. At Cookham Wood prison in Rochester, Kent, a tenth of the 166 boys held had been convicted or charged with killing someone, and faced many years in prison.Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-70300787148987836992015-09-22T15:36:28.096+01:002015-09-22T15:36:28.096+01:00EDITED: - From The Independent
" Prison insp...EDITED: - From The Independent<br /><br />" Prison inspectors call for review of entire youth detention system after detailing appalling violence "<br /><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/cookham-wood-prison-inspectors-call-for-review-of-entire-youth-detention-system-after-detailing-10511826.html<br /><br />AND from THE HMI website: -<br /><br />http://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspections/hmyoi-cookham-wood-2/#.VgFnOMJwa00Andrew_S_Hattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09115192522317353139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-22824265367986172902015-09-22T13:53:36.339+01:002015-09-22T13:53:36.339+01:00and finally, the most recent blog comment is from ...and finally, the most recent blog comment is from KSS which says the issue has been looked into and the operation will go ahead tomorrow. <br /><br />Whatever the circs of her offending, she is still clearly a very sickly human being, so good luck for the op and her future.mlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-76572665000662385402015-09-22T13:42:47.793+01:002015-09-22T13:42:47.793+01:00Just received a message about this: -
" KSS ...Just received a message about this: -<br /><br />" KSS CRC Communications22 September 2015 at 04:33<br /><br /><br />We've sorted out the situation with the lady involved and her surgery will be going ahead. Thanks for alerting us to this. all the best Ann "<br /><br /><br />http://outofsync8.blogspot.com/2015/09/petrified-and-in-pain-prohibitive.html?showComment=1442921637833#c2387905648205249787<br />Andrew_S_Hattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09115192522317353139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-83568553885755866732015-09-22T11:38:11.043+01:002015-09-22T11:38:11.043+01:00Hence the caveat at the beginning of this post:-
...Hence the caveat at the beginning of this post:-<br /><br />"We all know it's extremely difficult and often unwise to comment on cases when not in possession of the full facts, but...."Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-54673818617301120952015-09-22T11:07:10.014+01:002015-09-22T11:07:10.014+01:00CORRECTION
That comment was not posted "just...CORRECTION<br /><br />That comment was not posted "just this morning" but rather yesterday thus timed: -<br /><br />"22 September 2015 at 01:52"<br /><br />I guess the email time lag does not only happen within the NPS and CRC intranets!<br /><br />I had previously seen the comment timed at 09.55 TODAY as when I read it also via Twitter I 'clicked ' to follow by email out of interest.<br /><br />I am just glad I am not the case holder - I recall movements between Scotland and England of probation orders needed to go via the Home Office and HM Gov's Scottish Office donkeys ages ago and doubt that has changed!Andrew_S_Hattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09115192522317353139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-27370040473709225012015-09-22T11:06:49.198+01:002015-09-22T11:06:49.198+01:00I know the woman about whom the blog post is about...I know the woman about whom the blog post is about and interestingly the story is not as cut and dried as the original blog poster would have us believeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-38762110828370884132015-09-22T11:01:27.182+01:002015-09-22T11:01:27.182+01:00From what I understand from what I have read it pr...From what I understand from what I have read it probably boils down to KSS not wanting to take the transfer because they won't get paid for her and so would have to work for nothing for the length of time the woman in the post is on licence. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-78774391616634745332015-09-22T10:55:04.936+01:002015-09-22T10:55:04.936+01:00I see that a comment has been added to that blog j...I see that a comment has been added to that blog just this morning thus: - <br /><br />" KSS CRC Communications has left a new comment on the post "Petrified and in Pain: Prohibitive Probation": <br /><br />Thanks. The National Probation Service and ourselves are looking into this very urgently. kind regards Ann "Andrew_S_Hattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09115192522317353139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-80441940735864010392015-09-22T09:06:08.053+01:002015-09-22T09:06:08.053+01:00Awfu - I bet it's all about the money! It occu...Awfu - I bet it's all about the money! It occurred to me yesterday when I struggled up 6 flights of stairs, because the lift in our building has been out of service for 2 weeks now, that had the escalators in John Lewis broke down, preventing people from getting to Santa's grotto or any old sale, they'd have it fixed in a nano second! However, staff and clients who have asthma, angina, ar disabled, use walking sticks or are in wheelchairs cannot fulfil their contracts or court orders, we just have to struggle on, but then, who cares?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-48475660048958695092015-09-22T08:28:13.658+01:002015-09-22T08:28:13.658+01:00I wouldn't give any significance to the email ...I wouldn't give any significance to the email debacle. It takes up to six hours for my emails to be received by local agencies. I suspect the secure 'gsi/gsx' system has a role to play. And our out-of-office system doesn't, as with some, specify if its an automated response.<br /><br />Other than that, on the face of it - shocking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com