Prisons

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Four Hydebank officers test positive for Covid-19
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Northern Ireland
Posted
18 October 2020
Manhunt as inmate absconds from open prison
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Sussex
Posted
17 October 2020
Covid-test prisoners kept in cells for eight days
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Tyne & Wear
Posted
16 October 2020
Maghaberry prisoners monitored after Covid-19 case
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Northern Ireland
Posted
15 October 2020
Prisoners locked down after Covid outbreak
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Glasgow & West Scotland
Posted
11 October 2020
Visits to Magilligan Prison suspended over Covid
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Northern Ireland
Posted
8 October 2020
Covid curbs 'a blessing in disguise for prisons'
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UK Politics
Posted
8 October 2020
G4S awarded £300m contract to run 'mega prison'
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Northampton
Posted
6 October 2020
Bid to stop deportation of autistic man
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Birmingham & Black Country
Posted
6 October 2020
Prisoners making hundreds of PPE items every week
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Wales
Posted
6 October 2020
Investigations begin into Maghaberry Prison deaths
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Northern Ireland
Posted
3 October 2020
Head of Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum appeals to Nigerian president. Newsday. Audio, 00:02:38
Piotr Cywiński is calling for a 13-year-old boy to be pardoned
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BBC World Service
Posted
1 October 2020
The Documentary Podcast. Portland, prisons and white supremacy - part one. Audio, 26 minutes
How the death of a black teenager highlighted America’s struggle with white gang violence
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BBC World Service
Available for over a year
The Spark. Chris Daw and the Abolition of Prisons. Audio, 43 minutes
Leading thinkers propose solutions to the structural problems of our age.
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BBC Radio 4
Available for over a year
Four men in court over Maghaberry protest disorder
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Northern Ireland
Posted
28 September 2020
Welsh-speaking inmates 'threatened with sanctions'
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Wales
Posted
28 September 2020
'When mum went to prison, we rebuilt our relationship'
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Stories
Posted
28 September 2020
Four men charged after Maghaberry Prison protest
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Northern Ireland
Posted
27 September 2020
Officer injured in protest outside Maghaberry Prison
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Northern Ireland
Posted
26 September 2020
'Woefully small amount' of sex offenders get rehab
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Cambridgeshire
Posted
25 September 2020
Prisoners 'unable to access showers for weeks'
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Hereford & Worcester
Posted
19 September 2020
Republican prisoners refusing meals at Maghaberry
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Northern Ireland
Posted
18 September 2020
Stacey Dooley. Stacey Dooley Revisits, Revisiting... Judy: 40 years behind bars - and counting. Audio, 35 minutes
Stacey revisits the story of ‘lifer' Judy, jailed for her role in a murder-for-hire plot.
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BBC Radio 5 Live
Available for over a year
Bid to exhume bodies of killers executed at prison
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Glasgow & West Scotland
Posted
15 September 2020