Prison Overcrowding and Privatisation

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Created by: Luke Bartholomew
Created on: 27-01-14 15:47

There has been a growth in the number of prison spaces required which has led to...

Many prisons at or over operational capacity

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Offenders are often taken to prisons...

Many miles from home or kept in police remand cells, many also sharing cells

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Lord Woolf stated..

Overcrowding is a cancer eating at the ability of the prison service to deliver

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Prisoners doubled up in single occupancy cells, One stated...

It was like being put in a cage made for one animal and then getting two or three other people in"

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There is not enough prison officers. Prison Officers’ Association Chairman states that...

If we continue as we are - warehousing prisoners, not being able to build relationships between prisoners and prison officers that have worked in the past - There will riots which we will not be able to cope.”

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One impact of the limited resources is...

Impact on rehabilitation programmes, education and training

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One way to mitigate the pressures of overcrowding has been the growth of..

Private Prisons

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There are currently...

13 private prisons in the UK

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Private prisons are all more...

Overcrowed than those state run prisons, as there is a need to maximise their profit and minimise their costs

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Private prisons go against one of Flew's features of punishment..

The punishment is longer carried about the authority rules which the offender broke

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Lord Woolf stated..

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