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“The recent Chief Inspector of Prisons report on HMP Wandsworth is a damning indictment of the state of our prisons’ amidst the overcrowding crisis. The report highlights alarming failings throughout HMP Wandsworth; from dangerous levels of overcrowding, to soaring rates of violence and squalid conditions reminiscent of a Victorian workhouse.

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Campbell Robb, Nacro Chief Executive, comments of the data released on 25 July 2024 showing an increase in the number of people who are employed six months after leaving prison.

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The number of people leaving prison into homelessness has increased significantly in the past year. This is on average 800 people a month who go straight from prison to homelessness, most of those are rough sleeping.

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Today (12 July 2024) the Government announced emergency measures to reduce the prison population, due to the overcrowding crisis. Campbell Robb, Nacro Chief Executive, commented: “Unprecedented times require a meaningful response.

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Nacro comments on the Government extension their prisons’ early release scheme to allow people to leave prison up to 70 days before the end of their sentence.

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“This is a failure decades in the making, but a crisis growing on a daily basis. Every day we are seeing people released from prison with little notice, nowhere to live and without the support to help them turn their lives around on the outside.

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Nacro comments on YOI Wetherby, where a teenage girl was restrained and stripped by male prison staff.

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Following the release this morning of the Independent Monitoring Board’s annual report into the Cookham Wood young offenders institution which raised serious concerns over safety and decency for children at HMYOI Cookham Wood.

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Nacro comments on the report by the HM Chief Inspector of Prisons concerning the inadequate state of Bedford prison.

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See Nacro’s comment on new Government data about the rise in self-harm and violence against women in prisons.

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