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X-ray body scanners have stopped 10,000 attempts to smuggle contraband including drugs, weapons and phones into prisons in just over a year.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Offenders’ community punishments will be better focused on paying back society under a £93 million expansion plan.
Almost 26,000 extra offenders will be tagged over the next 3 years under an ambitious £180 million plan to expand the use of electronic monitoring to cut crime.
Gov Facility Services Ltd (GFSL) is proud to announce the winners of its own Hidden Heroes today (29 September 2021).
New action plan details measures to improve standards over the coming months.
HMP Garth prisoners have become the first to build eco-friendly lights in-house, cutting prisons’ energy use and saving taxpayers’ money.
Expansion of Clink Kitchens Scheme to help thousands of offenders find jobs and turn their backs on crime.
GFSL organises East Sutton Park Volunteering Day to tackle some of the outstanding works in the prison’s 85 acre grounds.
Thousands more solar panels are being fitted to prisons across England to help cut carbon emissions and save taxpayers’ money, Prisons Minister Alex Chalk has announced.
The first group of 11 apprentices are welcomed into their new workplaces this week across 9 HMP sites in the south of England.
Consultation launched to make lifesaving medicine which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose available to more frontline workers.
This month, The GFSL Team at HMP Bristol proudly fitted a defibrillator machine to an external prison wall.
More Albanian criminals will be removed from the UK and transferred from prisons in England and Wales after Ministers signed a new agreement today (Monday 26 July).
Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland QC MP has today (20 July 2021) unveiled his ambitious vision to reform criminal justice – including his intention for a Prison White Paper later this year.
Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland spoke at the Centre for Social Justice to outline how the government is rebuilding the criminal justice system and looking to its longer-term future.
Efforts to drive down crime in the north-east by helping prisoners and their children to maintain contact are underway, thanks to a funding boost from the Prison Service.
The public will be better protected and crime will be cut the Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland vows today (28 June 2021) as the new, unified Probation Service is launched.
Hollesley Bay prison leaver is the first to become fully employed after serving his sentence.
The Lord Chancellor shares his views on how tailored prisoner education can help us to build back a better and safer country for all.
More than 1,000 new trainee probation officers have been recruited to bolster the vital work the Probation Service does to cut crime and protect the public, meeting a government target set last July.
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