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In pictures: New exhibition showcasing sport in prisons set to mark Prisons Week
Landing curling, gymnastics and an official Belfast Marathon are among the sporting images captured in the photographic display. A new photographic exhibition is set to open on Monday [...]
Prison lessons from the Netherlands
Your report (UK could rent space in foreign jails to ease shortage of cells, 3 October) did not raise the question of why the Netherlands, or any country, should have prison space to s [...]
Cork court-referral progamme sees young cocaine users avoid criminal conviction
A Cork health intervention programme has seen 189 young cocaine users avoiding a criminal conviction in favour of the rehabilitation programme. A court-referral programme in Cork has s [...]
New Prison Education Service to cut crime
Overhaul of learning behind bars to include specialist teaching staff, apprenticeships and digital reading tools. new Prisoner Education Service to get more offenders into work on rele [...]
From prison and homelessness to a new life and prospects for Lloyd
At school he was classed as a troublemaker, at home he was seen as a disruptive influence who got in the with the wrong crowd and ended up in foster care…and from there it was a short [...]
Sharp increase in number of very short prison terms being imposed by judges
Number of sentences being handed down of three months or less more than doubles in last five years. The number of very short prison sentences being imposed by judges has more than doub [...]