PSA slams govt for insufficient prison space
The Police Superintendents’ Association has rounded on the government for failing to build sufficient prison space.
The Home Office has been forced to hurriedly reopen a wing of Norwich jail just two days after it was declared empty as part of an £18m refurbishment scheme.
The Police Superintendents’ Association has rounded on the government for failing to build sufficient prison space. The Home Office has been forced to hurriedly reopen a wing of Norwich jail just two days after it was declared empty as part of an £18m refurbishment scheme. Chief inspector of prisons Anne Owers had criticised the wing as “unfit for human habitation”. The Prison Governors’ Association said plans to provide 8,000 prison spaces over the next five years would not solve the space shortage. The Times 25/01/07 page 4, The Daily Telegraph 25/01/07 page 6, The Guardian 25/01/07 page 11