Fact checks relating to the UK prison services, number of prison officers and budgets
Question Time on September 13, 2018 came from the Oxfordshire town of Banbury. Topics covered included the Salisbury poisoning, Brexit, zero hours contracts, and prisons. Read
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Birmingham prison has been taken over from G4S by the government. Read
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Prisoner numbers, prison staff numbers and levels of violence in English and Welsh jails. Read
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Two prisoners occupy a cell intended for one. How many are living in 'crowded accommodation'? Some prisons have been counting only one prisoner. Read
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