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Learn more about Prison in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) As of 2003, the United States prison population is the world's largest in absolute numbers according to available statistics. Prisons may outsource medical care to private companies such as Correctional Medical Services, which, according to Hylton's research, try to minimize the amount of care given to prisoners in order to maximize profits. Prisons may specialize exclusively in male or in female prisoners, or have separate departments for each sex. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /p/pr/prison.html   (560 words)

Her Majesty's Prison Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Her Majesty's Prison Service is the British Executive Agency reporting to the Home Office tasked with managing most of the prisons within England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own Prison Services). On 9 January 2004, the Service housed 72,478 prisoners, of whom 58,170 were male aged over 21, 10,059 were male aged 15-21, 3,772 were female aged over 21 and 477 females aged 15-21. Private prisons are subject to scrutiny by the Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons in a similar manner to prisons run by the public Prison Service. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HM_Prison_Service   (509 words)

UK Criminal Justice Weblog Dartmoor prison is now a safer and less oppressive jail than it was two years ago but still has some way to go, according a report published yesterday by the chief inspector of prisons, Anne Owers. The Prison Service has been accused of a "shocking catalogue of failure" over the killing of an Asian teenager who was beaten to death by his racist cellmate. The 71% rise in the prison population between 1991 and 2001 was due to a "misplaced emphasis on toughness rather than effectiveness" as courts sentence more people to prison and for longer terms, according to a report by the Prison Reform Trust. radio.weblogs.com /0120189/categories/prisons   (683 words)

Holloway (HM Prison) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia HM Prison Holloway is a women's prison in the London Borough of Islington, London, United Kingdom. It was opened in 1852 as a mixed prison, but due to growing demand for space for female prisoners became female-only in 1903. The British music group Bush wrote a song about the prison called Personal Holloway, on their CD Razorblade Suitcase while the band Marillion has written Holloway Girl, found on the album Seasons End. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holloway_Prison   (211 words)

Science Fair Projects - Her Majesty's Prison Service Her Majesty's Prison Service is the British Executive Agency reporting to the Home Office tasked with managing many of the prisons within the United Kingdom. The head of the prison service, the Director General, currently Phil Wheatley, reports to the Home Secretary and also works closely with the Prison Minister, a junior minister post within the Home Office. On the 9th January 2004 the Service housed 72,478 prisoners, of whom 58,170 were male aged over 21, 10,059 were male aged 15-21, 3,772 were female aged over 21 and 477 females aged 15-21. www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/HM_Prison_Service   (592 words)

HM Prison Highdown Unannounced Short Inspection 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The prison itself was reasonably clean, with a few notable exceptions and had been maintained to a good standard although we discuss the problems of wall tiles later. Officers working on the vulnerable prisoners' spur were despatched to reception, whenever possible, to talk to potential vulnerable prisoners and we saw this as an example of good practice. Given the number of prisoners who might have benefited from the core programme and who remained at High Down for substantial parts of their sentences, we found it strange that only a booster programme was being offered. www.homeoffice.gov.uk /docs/highd3.html   (1499 words)

HMPS guideline proposals for transsexual prisoners One prisoner suggested that if she called the more effeminate prison officers 'she' they would have a right to object, and clearly if this were an issue surrounding race, universal practice in the prison service could only be seen as racist. This is without what one prisoner described as her experience of staff's increasing levels of prejudice, verbal abuse, physical molestation and emotional warfare. Again prisoners vary from the acceptably feminine-looking male-to-female to someone who would always be a focus for ridicule; from first-stage transitional m-to-f, for whom a male prison might be appropriate, to a post-operative m-to-f woman for whom it would not. www.pfc.org.uk /legal/tsprison.htm   (4030 words)

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Letters: The crisis in our prisons Having only arrived at the prison the previous day, she took a quantity of prescription drugs, then told a prison officer what she had done, and asked for help. If prisoners serving long sentences are to be rehabilitated, they need to be in open prisons, able to go on home leave and undertake work placements. And the most important lesson for the rest of us is that we can't have a safe, humane prison system able to play a real part in the rehabilitation of people who have committed serious offences if we keep sending more and more people to prison for ever longer periods of time. www.guardian.co.uk /letters/story/0,3604,978831,00.html   (542 words)

HM Prison Service - Locate a Prison - Parkhurst Parkhurst Prison is a category B trainer prison situated near Newport on the Isle of Wight. It was first built as a military hospital in 1805 then later transformed to a prison for boys awaiting deportation, mainly to Australia, as part of the Parkhurst act of 1835. In 1863 it was temporarily used as a female wing, then further wings (A B wings) were later built in 1869 to increase the population. www.hmprisons.gov.uk /prisoninformation/locateaprison/prison.asp?print=1&id=1017,15,2,15,1017,0   (198 words)

Wikipedia: Prison Synonyms of "prison" include "hoosegow", "clink", "slammer", "lockup", or "lockdown". Spending time in a federal prison in the U.S. is sometimes referred to as visiting "Club Fed". Both Russia and China also had prison populations or 1 million or more in 2002. www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/p/pr/prison.html   (526 words)

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Prison at bursting point, says inspector The chief inspector of prisons has warned that hundreds of inmates at Wandsworth must be moved out to ease an intense overcrowding crisis that has left the London jail among the "most impoverished" in the country. The prison service's new director general, Phil Wheatley, yesterday rejected the demand to remove hundreds of prisoners from Wandsworth, saying there was no room for them anywhere else. However, the director general of the prison service said yesterday that this would mean putting prisoners into police cells, which was expensive and would divert police resources away from policing. www.guardian.co.uk /prisons/story/0,7369,969273,00.html   (622 words)

HM Prison Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Her Majesty's Prison Service is the British Executive Agency reporting to the Home Office tasked with managing many of the prisons within theUnited Kingdom. The head of the prison service, the Director General, currently Phil Wheatley, reports to the Home Secretary and also works closely with the Prison Minister, a junior ministerpost within the Home Office. Privateprisons are subject to scrutiny by the Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons in a similar manner to prisons run by the publicPrison Service. www.therfcc.org /RFCC/hm-prison-service-311331.html   (383 words)

BBC News | UK | 'Overseas unit' call for prison Sir David's report into the prison said the loss of maximum security status had led to an "identity crisis" at the prison, which was built nearly 200 years ago. He said "very significant improvements" had been made at Parkhurst, which was used in the 19th century to hold boys awaiting deportation. Sir David said Parkhurst might be suitable for a Foreign Nationals Unit because of its location and the fact that overseas prisoners received fewer visitors. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1527565.stm   (382 words)

SUPPLY MANAGEMENT Prisoners were given the job of running a shop service for their fellow inmates in the project that won HM Prison Service its second award in three years. The prisoner workshop initiative (PWI) emerged from a brainstorming event between the prison’s contract catering retail services team and Aramark UK, its managed services and contract catering partner, which was externally running weekly shop service used by prisoners in 54 institutions. Parkhurst and Wellingborough prisons have also opened workshops in 2004, with five more expected in the new year. www.supplymanagement.co.uk /archiveitem.asp?id=11995   (725 words)

Ford Health Development Event 24 September 03 In fact the prisons and NHS are fishing in the same pond for these staff but they fare less well given their poor professional image, the rural siting of many establishments and inevitably, the negative images of the clientele served. Prison Health, the revamped and integrated national Prison Health Policy Unit and Task Force based at Wellington House, have indicated that in the first year of operation (2004/5) prison health budgets will be ring-fenced and monitored centrally. Also be aware that the profile of prisoners can have a significant impact on their healthcare needs, For instance, a male prison housing a remand and sentenced population will make more demand on healthcare than a jail for sentenced-only prisoners. fordhealthevent.blogspot.com   (4984 words)

City University Inspectors found that women prisoners, even those that were pregnant or had recently given birth, were unable to shower more than twice a week, while some areas suffered from cockroaches and feral pigeons. The prison has suffered a number of controversies: last year, nine female prison officers were reprimanded over allegations of bullying and lesbian sexual harassment of colleagues. Holloway accepts juvenile prisoners because it has no choice – there are no suitable places for them elsewhere. www.jour.city.ac.uk /admin/exams/2003practicaljch2.htm   (1334 words)

Marijuana.Com Marijuana Seeds & Drug Test Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) Home Office tasked with managing many of the prisons within the United Kingdom. Prison Minister, a junior minister post within the Home Office. Peterborough, are under construction or awaiting their first prisoner. www.assault-weapon.com /wiki/HM_Prison_Service   (421 words)

Royal Horticultural Society - News: Press Release Her Majesty’s Prison Camp Hill, on the Isle of Wight, is this year’s winner of the Windlesham Trophy Competition, a competition run by the Prison Service, in conjunction with the gardening charity, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), for the best-kept prison garden in England and Wales. The second area is a prisoner garden for St Stephens wing consisting of shrub and rose gardens with two ponds, three poly tunnels and a green house. The prison service is committed to provide certificated horticultural training to prisoners as part of its rehabilitation process and so continues to invest in new horticultural machinery, greenhouses and poly tunnels to equip prisons with the infrastructure that can deliver training to National Proficiency Training Council (NPTC) standards and beyond. www.rhs.org.uk /news/pressreleases/prison120805.asp   (1134 words)

Independent Online Edition > Careers Advice : app4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) The office: For most prison officers, of all ranks, the office is their own particular prison, but big decisions are taken at head office, at Cleland House, in Westminster's political village. The Prison Service website (www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk) shows graduate opportunities in a number of specialist areas, including psychology and pharmacy, but the main recruitment route for future managers is the Intensive Development Scheme (IDS), which takes up to 18 graduates a year. Eleven prisons are now privately managed, among the biggest Doncaster Prison, which holds 1,100 male inmates. education.independent.co.uk /careers_advice/article295430.ece   (516 words)

List of United Kingdom prisons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This page lists all current and a number of historical prisons in the United Kingdom. See List of Prisons for prisons in other countries, and Her Majesty's Prison Service for further information on the English and Welsh Prison Service. These are run by the National Health Service rather than the prison service. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_prisons   (317 words)

Holloway Prison Prison began in 1849 and was completed in 1851 to... prison was closed for one third of the... prison was used exclusively for women and many of the suffrag... www.emagical.co.uk /holloway_prison.html   (321 words)

THE TOM SARGANT MEMORIAL LECTURE SITE That is the way he had to dress in prison and it had not occurred to him that 'outside' was significantly different. He was soon dressed in a natty three-piece suit, with a decent haircut and a touch less of the prison pallor. Inside Parkhurst he was on a par with the Krays, Sutcliffe and Nilsen. www.btinternet.com /%7Epeter.hill34/jock.htm   (1168 words)

CCJS Publications - Taking The Prison Service Into The 21st Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) We must never be unmoved by a prisoner's premature death, by the sight of a teenager arriving from court alone and afraid, or by the sight of staff putting their personal safety on the line for the benefit of their colleagues and the prisoners they care for. For the overwhelming majority of prisoners, custody is an interruption in their lives rather than a final destination. The Prison Service's current accreditation system for offending behaviour programmes has allowed us to intervene with a small minority of higher risk offenders in a way that evaluation is now starting to show can be radically more successful in reducing re-offending than many of us ever dreamed. www.kcl.ac.uk /depsta/rel/ccjs/21st-century-prison-service.html   (3571 words)

HM Prison Service - News Prison information alt i, advice and support alt s, careers and jobs alt n, news alt n, resource centre alt r, about the service alt a Skip to main page content The 25 finalists for the prestigious Prison Officer of the Year Awards 2005 have been announced. The award recognised the officer’s efforts in developing the prison’s Resettlement Assessment Centre, where he designed and implemented systems to complement the smooth operation of the unit. www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk /news/index.asp?id=3194,22,6,22,0,0   (228 words)

BBC News | UK | 'Overseas unit' call for prison Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight could become the first in the UK to house a unit for foreigners. The report also recommends a national review of the way foreigners are dealt with by the Prison Service. The 1995 escapes led to the sacking of Derek Lewis, the prison service's director general. news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/1527565.stm   (362 words)

Long goodbye for East End's Charlie Kray Choreographed with military precision by a team of 50 men in dark coats, all large and most with cropped hair, it was a meeting of old enemies and friends from a long-gone Dickensian underworld. The greeting was somewhat hampered by the fact that Kray had his left hand firmly cuffed to a pony-tailed prison officer to ensure that after 32 years behind bars he was not tempted to run from the Bethnal Green Church of St Matthew. died in Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/04/20/nkray20.html   (632 words)

Imprisonment : Essential Information, explanation, recent texts, monographs, and relevant links. It is second largest in relative numbers to Rwanda, where as of 2002, over 100,000 people were held on suspicion of participation in the 1994 genocide. Some observers have gone so far as to accuse the United States of deliberately developing the legal system and the prison industry as a means of social control. Observers generally regard prison conditions in the United States as problematic, with prisoner violence and rape wide-spread, and medical care for inmates inadequate. essential-facts.com /Sociology/Imprisonment.html   (1085 words)

Alibris: Hm The hm Program is geared for specific grade levels, allowing you to encourage the middle and junior high student's growing capacity for abstraction. Includes materials for an in-service workshop for teachers and administrators on the use of the hm program for developing essential study skills. Designed to help teachers evaluate study skills in their eight-, ninth-, and tenth-grade students; and to show how the hm program can be used to improve these skills. www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Hm   (922 words)

Commissioning conundrum for custodial care * Author's reply -- Gannon and Wilson 184 (5): 454 -- The British Journal of ... be in prisons at all – we should argue for nothing less. In Prison Nursing (eds A. Norman and A. Parrish), pp. Wilson, S. The principle of equivalence and the future of mental health care in prisons. bjp.rcpsych.org /cgi/content/full/184/5/454   (621 words)

Providing treatment to prisoners with mental disorders: development of a policy: Selective literature review and expert ... Psychiatric morbidity is prevalent among prisoners (Office for National Statistics, 1998). HM Inspectorate of Prisons (1996) Patient or Prisoner? HM Prison Service and NHS Executive (1999) The Future Organisation of Prison Health Care. bjp.rcpsych.org /cgi/content/full/182/4/299   (2282 words)

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