tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post8928953770749288933..comments2024-03-28T20:12:43.003+00:00Comments on On Probation Blog: Prison Reform 3Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-29029395673922856272016-05-19T13:03:56.253+01:002016-05-19T13:03:56.253+01:00Perhaps sometimes Chris Grayling lies: http://www....Perhaps sometimes Chris Grayling lies: http://www.snappytv.com/tc/1967747/952984Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-14810839362160816232016-05-19T10:21:57.783+01:002016-05-19T10:21:57.783+01:00Not too sure about the lack of IT access Rod, ther...Not too sure about the lack of IT access Rod, there's no shortage of prisoners using IT to intimidate their ex-partners and/or run their drug supply businesses from the comfort of their flowery dells. What irks me is the quality of their IT compared to mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-7563407235797628372016-05-19T07:21:44.148+01:002016-05-19T07:21:44.148+01:00I remember dear Chris saying that the only impact ...I remember dear Chris saying that the only impact of overcrowding was that there were two people in a cell designed for one.Oh how we laughed.<br />Anon ex SPO no 2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-10409749435325216852016-05-18T19:26:51.859+01:002016-05-18T19:26:51.859+01:00Who's criticising prison staff, or probation s...Who's criticising prison staff, or probation staff who work in prisons?! I don't see any of this above, either in the comment or the original post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-71854925759172266002016-05-18T19:15:31.892+01:002016-05-18T19:15:31.892+01:00League tables of prisons, oh goody! Creating compe...League tables of prisons, oh goody! Creating competition for its own sake has worked just brilliantly in our education and health systems, hasn't it? No danger of prison governors focussing all their attention on the things being measured to the exclusion of all else, no matter how irrelevant the factor may be or the dodginess of the data...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-32816590764998943682016-05-18T15:26:27.200+01:002016-05-18T15:26:27.200+01:00This all sound remarkably like custody plus and cu...This all sound remarkably like custody plus and custody minus. Great idea but was expensive to implement and it relies on prisoners being near home and not miles away in the middle of no-where (which is where most prisons seem to be) which is why it never got off the ground in the first place! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-1850318096264518702016-05-18T11:15:13.276+01:002016-05-18T11:15:13.276+01:00Did I miss something or the Pi never mentioned pro...Did I miss something or the Pi never mentioned probation?????????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-8409793900055789222016-05-18T11:12:24.915+01:002016-05-18T11:12:24.915+01:00Who can take anything the PI says seriously. They ...Who can take anything the PI says seriously. They blow with the wind.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-32875418734266698782016-05-18T11:00:50.455+01:002016-05-18T11:00:50.455+01:00Frances Crook
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If people are safe to...Frances Crook<br />@francescrook<br />If people are safe to go home & work during the week, what's the point locking them in prison at weekend when very few staff #QueensSpeechAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-50771526802847004532016-05-18T10:06:01.582+01:002016-05-18T10:06:01.582+01:00Grayling is right, albeit disingenuously so: there...Grayling is right, albeit disingenuously so: there was no 'ban' on books but his policy imposed severe restrictions – a policy, deemed unlawful, though he spent £72,000 of taxpayers' money on seeking to defend it.<br /><br />'The Justice Secretary spent £72,000 of taxpayers’ money in an attempt to maintain his ban on inmates receiving books in prison from visitors.<br /><br />Last month the High Court ruled Chris Grayling’s prison book ban “unlawful” and Mr Justin Collins said he could see “no good reason” for the Government’s stance and said their defence was “misleading”.<br /><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chris-grayling-spends-72000-of-taxpayers-money-to-defend-unlawful-prison-book-ban-9969937.html<br />Netnippernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-55247774933019760472016-05-18T09:41:35.919+01:002016-05-18T09:41:35.919+01:00What did you expect from the PI ???
Come on, after...What did you expect from the PI ???<br />Come on, after nearly 2 years of being split no-one is supporting us anymore and as for NAPO I,m sorry but they couldn't condemn a washing machine let alone stand up for its members. Private v Public no one cares anymore its all changed. Cost cutting exercise it might be but some of us are still here working are asses off and why, because we care! If we didnt we would walk away and pay our bills in other areas of the employment industry. <br />As for the prisons I whole heartedly respect everyone who works in them. These are dangerous places at the minute and if anyone wants to really see what working in a dangerous and frightening environment is put in a request to move to one. It might even open your eyes to what the staff have to compete with and that's before any work has been undertaken. Prisons are a tough job and not for the feeble and whinging moaners so can we have respect to staff in there regardless of sector please. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-67924235292708515902016-05-18T09:15:56.687+01:002016-05-18T09:15:56.687+01:00A tweet from the Secret Barrister seems to sum thi...A tweet from the Secret Barrister seems to sum things up nicely:-<br /><br />"God Chris Grayling is odious. A foul, mendacious, self-serving, amoral, intellectually-bereft embodiment of all wrong with politics"Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-31436124774935340922016-05-18T09:06:38.476+01:002016-05-18T09:06:38.476+01:00As someone working in CRC i can assure Mr Grayling...As someone working in CRC i can assure Mr Grayling that released prisoners are not getting any support in any shape or form. What a fool.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-49269830092435553692016-05-18T08:35:29.364+01:002016-05-18T08:35:29.364+01:00Yes and Boris Johnson was 'misquoted' and ...Yes and Boris Johnson was 'misquoted' and 'probation had been successfully reformed and 50,000 released prisoners now getting support'. Maybe pigs do fly after all. Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-65623432973722110702016-05-18T08:31:16.874+01:002016-05-18T08:31:16.874+01:00Just heard Chris being interviewed on the Today pr...Just heard Chris being interviewed on the Today programme (8:10am slot). Apparently his banning of books in prison was a complete myth and never happened, and all the current issues in prison are the fault of legal highs, which have now been made illegal, so thAt's alright then. Phew!. <br />Deb Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-91096717880462442022016-05-18T08:16:26.642+01:002016-05-18T08:16:26.642+01:00Prisoners should be able to use iPads in their cel...Prisoners should be able to use iPads in their cells and stay in touch with friends and family via Skype, a major study commissioned by the justice secretary, Michael Gove, is expected to conclude.<br /><br />The review into prison education by Dame Sally Coates advocates the increased use of “in-cell technology, such as iPads, so prisoners can learn independently”, according to extracts from a draft of the report seen by the Guardian.<br /><br />The findings will be published alongside the Queen’s speech on Wednesday, which will include legislation that ministers say represents the biggest shakeup in prisons since Victorian times.<br /><br />The prisons bill will pave the way for satellite tracking that will allow some offenders to spend just weekends in jail, introduce league tables on reoffending, employment rates, violence and self harm, and give the governors at six major prisons unprecedented freedoms. Prisons will be able to determine how their budgets are spent and opt out of national contracts.<br /><br />The legislation will be a centrepiece of the government’s Queen’s speech, which David Cameron wants to be centred around improving the life chances of the most disadvantaged individuals in the country.<br /><br />It will come alongside a children and social work bill, designed to improve the opportunities for those in care, a universities bill, which aims to boost the chances of students from minority backgrounds, and a local growth and jobs bill.<br /><br />The government is also expected to push ahead with controversial plans to tear up the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British bill of rights, in a move that is likely to face fierce resistance. There will also be a digital economy bill.<br /><br />But the prime minister is hoping to focus on the life-chances legislation, which follows a series of speeches aimed at building a legacy that goes beyond the government’s austerity drive. <br /><br />A life-chances strategy, which will focus on supporting children during the early years and improving parenting, is also due to be published in the summer, later than originally planned.<br /><br />Cameron said his government was preparing to present a “One Nation Queen’s speech from a One Nation government”.<br /><br />“For too long, we have left our prisons to fester. Not only does that reinforce the cycle of crime, increasing the bills of social failure that taxpayers must pick up. It writes off thousands of people,” he said.<br /><br />Gove said: “Prisons must do more to rehabilitate offenders. We will put governors in charge, giving them the autonomy they need to run prisons in the way they think best.<br /><br />“By trusting governors to get on with the job, we can make sure prisons are places of education, work and purposeful activity. These reforms will reduce reoffending, cut crime and improve public safety.”<br /><br />A Conservative source claimed that none of the reforms should be seen as “soft on crime”, pointing out that the vast majority of prisoners end up back on the streets, so rehabilitation is critical.<br /><br />As well as promising massive freedoms for prisons, starting with sites in the east Midlands, the north-east and London, including HMP Wandsworth, the government will welcome the findings of Coates into how to improve education inside prisons.<br /><br />She will call for a Teach First-style programme in prisons but will also criticise blanket security practices that effectively ban internet use in jails. She will also recommend trialling the use of technology such as Skype to communicate with loved ones face to face, claiming: “Keeping in touch with friends and family is a key factor in maintaining an individual’s wellbeing and has been shown to reduce reoffending.”<br /><br />Rod Clark, chief executive of the Prisoners’ Education Trust, said he welcomed the far-reaching review “and particularly [Coates’s] call for a commonsense approach to the use of technology in prisons”.<br /><br />Clark added: “For too long, jails in England and Wales have languished in a pre-internet dark age, with prisoners struggling to find a computer to type on, let alone gain internet access.”Jim Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00258147767051200157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-90818826860649430162016-05-18T08:01:03.898+01:002016-05-18T08:01:03.898+01:00http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/17/sky...http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/17/skype-ipads-in-cell-education-prison-legislation-queens-speechAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8578343158425987632.post-48863666187166679332016-05-18T07:56:02.251+01:002016-05-18T07:56:02.251+01:00Pile of tosh from the Probation Institute. No ment...Pile of tosh from the Probation Institute. No mention of the Probation Service, the skills of Probation Officers or their place in "what works" and "end to end offender management". 100+ years of probation supporting offenders in prisons and communities and we don't get a single mention by our own so called institute. Instead this is a nod from the PI to private companies and their perverse roles in CRC's and TTG even though the evidence is showing they're a dud and should be no part of "community services". I have no respect for the PI which is part of the MoJ's whitewashing of probation history, and it is time NAPO condemns it. Probation Officernoreply@blogger.com