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	GNN - Government News Network
		Cookham Wood prison in Kent is to change function from a female prison to a dedicated Young Offenders Institution for young men under the age of 18, Justice Minister David Hanson MP announced today.
		This move will ensure that more juvenile prisoners can be held nearer their homes and families, as the rise in the prison population has resulted in a shortage of places for under-18 year olds from London and the South East.
		Cookham Wood was built in 1978, originally for young men, but its use was changed to meet the growing need for secure female accommodation at the time.
	www.gnn.gov.uk /Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=303386&NewsAreaID=2 (459 words)

	Cookham Wood (HM Prison) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HM Prison Cookham Wood is a closed prison for adult women near Rochester in Kent, England.
		It is estimated that more than 40% of the current prison population are captured drug mules, picked up at London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
		The child-killer Myra Hindley served much of her prison in Cookham Wood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cookham_Wood_(HM_Prison) (118 words)

	Custody and Training of Female Prisoners in Scotland
		The principle of the responsible prisoner was recognised in that, judging each case on its merits, the Governor was prepared to consider prisoners being allowed to make town visits in the company of their visitors.
		Visits were generous and although prisoners looked forward to the weekend leaves escorted by their visitors they admitted to difficulty in coping with the traumatic effect of returning to the prison.
		Interestingly, some prisoners (five at the time of our visit) were able to retain the job they had prior to imprisonment and it was also possible for others to apply for jobs outside the prison.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /library/documents/fep6.htm (4644 words)

	CHRI: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
		Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owes has expressed her concern over the falling standard of conditions in Doncaster Prison, which is one of the four prisons run by Serco.
		The prisoner alleged that he had received threats and such a refusal by the authorities was a violation of his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights.
		Prisoners are a condemned lot and the tiny cells and harsh prison conditions that houses them condemns them twice.
	www.humanrightsinitiative.org /programs/aj/prisons/news (4688 words)

	Prisons Amendment Bill - 06/06/1996 - 2R
		Cookham Wood, which is a women's gaol in Kent, was one such gaol.
		These amendments provide that all references to prisons in the Prisons Act be replaced with references to correctional centres, all references to prisoners be replaced with references to inmates, and all references to prison officers be replaced with references to correctional officers.
		I support the Government for its concept of prisons where the authorities are able to show some compassion and allow interstate leave-of-absence for prisoners to attend burials, funerals and the like, and where a differentiation is made between inmates under protection and those in segregation.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/a60a6a8d2db7ace1ca256e6a0024cf47/ca256d11000bd3aa4a25644100155cda!OpenDocument (5614 words)

	HM Prison Service - Locate a Prison - Cookham Wood
		Cookham Wood is a closed prison for adult women.
		Regime: Prisoners are mainly employed in the workshops (tailoring and contract work), on the gardens, painting party and in domestic work such as kitchen and cleaning.
		There are several offending behaviour groups, run either by prison staff or probation, as well as support groups (such as the foreign nationals group) and self-help groups.
	www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk /prisoninformation/locateaprison/prison.asp?id=320,15,2,15,320,0 (166 words)

	Home Office \| Press Office \| HMP Cookham Wood - Considerable Progress
		HMP Cookham Wood has made considerable progress, said Anne Owers, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, publishing the report of an unannounced short follow-up inspection of the women's training prison.
		The prison had introduced a personal officer scheme and there was better support for fl and minority ethnic and foreign national prisoners.
		Importantly, for a women's prison, there was still no purpose-built visitors' centre, and women's ability to stay in touch with families and friends was further hampered by the frequent cancellation of evening association.
	press.homeoffice.gov.uk /press-releases/hmp-cookham-wood-considerable-pr (415 words)

	Action for Prisoner's Families: 6,000 CHILDREN SEPARATED FROM MUM THIS MOTHER'S DAY
		Action for Prisoners' Families and the Howard League for Penal Reform and reveal today (21/03/2004) that more than 6,000 children under 16 years will be unable to give their mother a card to celebrate Mother's Day as their mother will be in prison.
		For example Action for Prisoners' Families research at HMP Cookham Wood showed 33% of mothers in the prison were not receiving visits from their children.
		Action for Prisoners' Families and the Howard League for Penal Reform are calling for an end to the excessive use of prison for women.
	www.prisonersfamilies.org.uk /opus596.html (1008 words)

	Prisons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		SDC received funding from South East Arts to pilot the project at two prisons in Kent - Cookham Wood (near Rochester) and East Sutton Park (in Maidstone).
		The project based on "free will" included performances by SDC followed by an intensive rehearsal period where prisoners took part in a series of discussions and workshops to explore related issues.
		Prisons can host performances as part of their leisure activities (for example hosting "Journey of the Magi" at Christmas) or can invite SDC to work alongside the prison chaplain with performances and workshops.
	www.springsdancecompany.org.uk /prisons.htm (244 words)

	June 2003 - Prison staffing crisis
		Local recruitment and training by the Prison Service is beginning to make a difference but far too often prison staff are left out of government schemes such as interest free loans or free travel designed to attract other essential public sector workers like the police and nursing staff.
		Large local prisons are operating like giant transit camps with prisoners constantly on the move from one overcrowded jail to another.
		Prison has a poor record in reducing re-offending — 59 per cent of prisoners are reconvicted within 2 years of being released.
	www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk /363 (868 words)

	Budget Estimates and Related Papers - 20/11/1995
		I left Cookham Wood with mixed feelings, particularly as in the confinement unit there was a time-out cell that was worse than anything I had seen in Australia.
		The prisoners spend their first 14 days in the unit living in the bottom wing of the prison hospital, which is adjacent to the unit.
		I was informed that the majority of prisoners currently in the unit are addicted to valium by injection and therefore this period spent under medical supervision is essential.
	www.parliament.nsw.gov.au /prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/a60a6a8d2db7ace1ca256e6a0024cf47/ca256d11000bd3aa4a25644b0007fd51!OpenDocument (11409 words)

	Find Keith Bennett - Articles - 15/12/96 - Hindley demands access to lover
		The two women struck up a relationship at Cookham Wood prison in Kent that led to a ban on visits by Dutch-born Ms Wilde and the move to Durham for Hindley.
		A move to an open prison, where inmates are detained on trust in establishments with no perimeter fences, would cause a public outcry and could also place Hindley at risk of attack.
		Prison chiefs are believed to have considered moving Hindley and multiple-killer Rosemary West, who is also likely to remain in jail for life, to a refurbished five-cell unit at Woodhill prison, near Milton Keynes, which was formerly used by supergrasses.
	www.bernardomahoney.com /keithbennett/articles/hdatl.shtml (547 words)

	HM Prison Rochester -Report on a short unannounced inspection, 31 August - 3 September 1999 by HM Inspectorate of ...
		We met a group of young prisoners in the wing TV room which was in a particularly filthy state with dirty abandoned clothing in one corner and long-standing smears of tea and food encrusting both windows walls and radiators.
		A compact designed for the prisoner to sign prior to his transfer to the resettlement unit suggested that because he was coming to the unit to address his offending behaviour, any failure to do so meant he might lose his place on the standard regime.
		Prisoners spoke highly of the benefits of the PE programme and were frustrated at its frequent cancellation and reduction due to staffing difficulties.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /ERO/records/ho415/1/hmipris/inspects/roch.htm (21219 words)

	Cookham Wood concerns grow - 12/02/2004 - Communitycare.co.uk - the website for social work and social care ...
		Women held at Cookham Wood prison in Rochester, Kent, have been prevented from contacting their families because of staff shortages, a report by the Prisons Inspectorate reveals.
		Time out of cell for association was often cancelled and prisoners had been allowed their full period of association for only one weekday in the three months before inspection, the report says.
		The prison, along with the rest of the women's estate, had been under pressure in the past year with an increase in the needs of prisoners, the report says.
	www.communitycare.co.uk /Articles/2004/02/12/43763/cookham-wood-concerns-grow.html (353 words)

	Find Keith Bennett - Articles - 31/01/98 - Anger over lower security prison for Hindley
		The decision to move Hindley to a less secure regime was yesterday described as "disgusting" by the mother of one of her young victims, while a supporter called for her to be transferred to an open jail.
		She should be moved to an open prison in preparation for release immediately," he said.
		What the prison authorities have to be certain of is her own safety within the prison.
	www.bernardomahoney.com /keithbennett/articles/aolspfh.shtml (531 words)

	portland imc - Political Prisoners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Prison Activist.org has a very well-organized and updated listing of political prisoners, as well as a prisoner resource page that has more in depth coverage of US political prisoners.
		Although many prisoners are listed together, they must be written separately and their addresses must appear exactly as printed here.
		As of Nov 26, British animal rights prisoner, Jan Lawrence, who is serving 8 months for sending hate mail to people connected to Huntingdon Life Sciences, has been moved back to her original prison address.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/static/prisonlegislation.shtml (2603 words)

	Action for Prisoner's Families: JAIL PROBLEMS AFFECT CHILDREN TOO
		A report from Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of Prisons at HMP Cookham Wood in Kent has highlighted the impact of overcrowding and staffing difficulties on family contact.
		It is disappointing to see that little has been done to enable women at Cookham Wood to keep in touch with their children.
		Telephone calls from the prison are expensive and now, because of staff shortages, the women are not even being let out of their cells to make calls home to their children and families.
	www.prisonersfamilies.org.uk /pr090204.html (571 words)

	Pardon for drug smuggler jailed in Thailand \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Sandra Gregory, the former teacher who has spent seven and a half years in prison after she was caught smuggling heroin, was freed yesterday after a show of clemency by the king of Thailand.
		She was released from Cookham Wood prison in Kent, where she has spent the last nine months of her sentence, after she was pardoned by King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
		Gregory was transferred to last autumn to Cookham Wood, where she began an Open University degree course.
	www.guardian.co.uk /drugs/Story/0,2763,346044,00.html (657 words)

	Hindley to be moved to medium security jail
		THE Moors murderer Myra Hindley is to be transferred next month to the medium security prison to which she was moved temporarily last autumn to receive visits from a female friend.
		Highpoint, which once had a reputation for a lax regime, and was nicknamed Hi-de-Highpoint after the TV holiday camp comedy, has the same security rating as Cookham Wood prison, Kent, where Hindley, 54, moved before she was transferred to Durham in 1995.
		A prison service spokesman insisted that it was "routine for life sentence prisoners to be moved around the prison estate".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/01/31/nmyra31.html (636 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 7 Mar 2005 (pt 32)
		This will enable prison to access information about employment opportunities in their local area, and also nationally to assist prisoners who are held at establishments outside their home areas.
		Of these, 77 were routine allocations from a local prison serving the courts to a training prison and two were for disciplinary reasons.
		Over the last 12 months Cookham Wood has successfully implemented a performance improvement plan and has implemented most of the recommendations made by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons in her report of an inspection of the prison which was published on 6 February 2004.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200405/cmhansrd/cm050307/text/50307w32.htm (1654 words)

	Manipulative as she was, Hindley didn't fool me - Independent Online Edition > Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		She had presence; she had status; she had power over people, including some officers who seemed not to mind what she did but were alert to the slightest lapse among other inmates, especially "outsiders" – those who didn't belong to that culture and the hierarchy.
		They could not have watched her as she was in the various prisons; otherwise they might have at least wondered what they were doing clamouring for her right to be free.
		Freedom from prison after an acceptable period and real evidence of growth and rehabilitation or after a miscarriage of justice is something that many of us passionately believe in and fight for.
	comment.independent.co.uk /columnists_a_l/yasmin_alibhai_brown/article133748.ece (1366 words)

	Women in Prison - Service user input
		Needless to say I was thrilled to hear, when I met Fen, that WIP could not only help financially, but would also help with books and other educational equipment that I might need, to enable me to complete the course and (hopefully) pass the exam.
		Women in Prison is a registered charity - number 1014437
		All content is Copyright © Women in Prison, except where otherwise stated.
	www.womeninprison.org.uk /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=56 (332 words)

	Vegan Prisoners Support Group - Home Page
		Funds are regularly needed for us to be able to provide the monthly nutritional packs to prisoners, which we hope to supply until such items are available through their prison shops.
		The Prison Shop Project is moving forward finally and we would like to thank those supporters who wrote to their MPs.
		Prisoner moves: Mark Taylor has moved to HMP YOI Onley in Warwickshire, and Wayne Bunch has moved to HMP Brockhill in Worcestershire.
	www.vpsg.org (795 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Kent \| Prison shows 'marked improvement'
		Cookham Wood Prison, in Rochester, has shown a marked improvement and many recommendations made then had been achieved, according to inspectors.
		Inspectors also found little work was being done with the 15 prisoners serving life sentences and more staff training was needed in self-harm, suicide prevention and anti-bullying.
		However, they said relationships between staff and prisoners remained mutually respectful and there was found to be much more purposeful activity and a greater focus on resettlement.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/kent/4459518.stm (292 words)

	The Griffins - Publications digest
		HMP Brockhill, a women's local prison, has serious deficiencies, but the solution is not simply to change its role to a men's prison without providing any suitable alternative for women in the West Midland s, said the Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers in the report of an announced inspection published today.
		In both the UK and the rest of the world there have been rapid increases in the numbers of women in prison, which has led to an acceleration of interest in women's crimes and the social control of women, and women's experience of both prison and the criminal justice system is very different to men's.
		In the last decade there has been growing international concern about the increasing numbers of women in prison, the effects that imprisonment has on their children, the realisation that gaoled women have different criminal profiles and rehabilitative needs to male prisoners, and the seeming intractability of the associated problems.
	www.thegriffinssociety.org /publications_digest.html (2687 words)

	UK Prisons - Criminal Information Agency
		You can also locate a prison in the North, Midlands, or South of the UK and also Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Islands.
		You can now find out simple but important information such as when visiting, what ID do you need, what you can bring into prison on a visit for your loved one, what rights he or she has while in prison, information about how to get there.
		Prison is not, contrary to some opinions, a holiday camp.
	www.criminal-information-agency.com /prison.php (378 words)

	Fawcett - Cookham Wood decision fails women prisoners and wider society (27/7/07)
		Cookham Wood decision fails women prisoners and wider society (27/7/07)
		Commenting on the announcement that Cookham Wood women's prison is to become a young offenders institution, Dr Katherine Rake, Director of the Fawcett Society, said:
		This decision will result in women prisoners being scattered across the country, with little consideration give to their needs.
	www.fawcettsociety.org.uk /index.asp?PageID=507 (147 words)

	Foreigners kept in jail by delays to deportation - Times Online
		Many of the prisoners want to leave Britain but are being prevented from doing so by bureaucratic delays in the immigration department which arranges travel documents and aircraft tickets for foreign deportees.
		Prison experts and opposition MPs say the delays, by regional criminal casework teams, has contributed to the overcrowding crisis which has brought the prison system almost to breaking point.
		One of those forced to stay in prison was Thembie Gwala, a South African jailed for nine months who completed her sentence at Cookham Wood prison, Kent, on June 27 this year.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/news/uk/article648823.ece (900 words)

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