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Press releases
- A prisoner is dying every day as deaths, assaults and self-injury in prisons continue to rise
- Leeds prison inspection: A snapshot of a troubled prison system
- Lewes prison: High levels of violence and not enough purposeful activity
- Bronzefield prison: A good report but underlying concerns
- Wormwood Scrubs prison report lays bare the damaging impact of the government’s Transforming Rehabilitation programme
- Criminal Care: Children’s homes are criminalising children
- Prison incidents of “concerted indiscipline” rise by 207% in three years
- Woodhill prison: Where 11 prisoners have taken their own lives since 2012
- Howard League helps produce European guide on monitoring places where children are deprived of liberty
- Doncaster: A new but failing private prison
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