ministry of justice

Demand For Urgent Review As Suicide Among Recently-Released Prisoners Rockets By 21%

Epidemic of drugs and violence gripping UK jails thought to be damaging inmates' mental health.
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Report Reveals How 'Muslim Prisoners Are Treated Worse In Jail'

It comes amid concerns that the Muslim prison population has more than doubled.
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Emergency Workers Reveal Scale Of Assaults By Public

Now PM backs Bill to protect 999 staff from assault
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Labour Aims To End Tory Privatisation Of Prison Maintenance After Report Exposes Squalid Cells

Five-year deals with private contractors Carillion and Geo Amey that the MoJ entered in 2014 are failing to deliver promised savings.
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Probation Companies Handed Cash Windfall Despite Explosion In Reoffending

'The public is paying more for a probation service which is failing to deliver.'
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Young Black People Are Nine Times More Likely To Be Jailed Than White Offenders

Young black people have also spent longer in custody.
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Ministry Of Justice Denies Conflict Of Interest Over Prisons Contract

Bidding war won by company with former prisons chief on its board.
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'Unacceptable' Levels Of Contraband Found In UK Prisons As 225kg Is Seized In One Year

13,000 mobile phones were also found last year.
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Sniffer Dog 'Went Crazy' And Attacked Young Girl As She Visited Belmarsh Prison

'The dog went crazy and just went for the little girl.'
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G4S Slammed For 'Embarrassing' Blunder That Could Have Seen People Jailed Unfairly

'An embarrassing admission.'
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