Suicide every three days
Conditions particularly bad in children's prisons - Some eat all their meals in their cells - too much tome in solitary, not enough exercise or education - shaping them for the better or worse?
food budget cuts - £2.20 per prisoner per day in 2012 to £1.96 a day in 2013Drug use - high - addiction comes in to it - another way prisoners are struggling to cope - mental healthguards scared for their own safetyWay overcrowded 85,000 prisoners in England and wales (2017) 45,000 in 1990 - Pushed up by greater awareness of violence crimes - rape, domestic abuse answer not to cut number of prisonersviolence, self harm to highPrisons should be about reforming prisoners - not just housing them - these conditions encourage crime - not healthy'spice' synthetic marajuana hard to detect - boredom too much time in cells - gangs trade it in prisonsIllusion that we need to cut prison numbers or do nothingMassive cuts - cuts to prison staff by con/ lib dem 2010 (over 1/3 - 6,000 - 2010) = cause (prison nos also didn't shoot up as mcuh as anticipated so they shut like 3 old prisons stating expensive to maintain and outdated)- made more dangerous = rehabilitation less likely - whole purpose of prisons defeated- Less alarmed doors working, holes in fences - prisoners not watched - more violence- sewers, toilets blocked - smashed windows - (2017) 45% of children in young offenders institutions said they felt unsafe in the prisonOvercrowding - major issue (more people caught, failure to use other forms of treatment?, less funds etc.)- Less staff/ money puts prison focus on risk management not rehabilitation(Budget cuts = staff cuts = drug, drinking (feeds) violence (feeds) self harm, suicide = less chance of reform = not doing their job)Solution - better funds = better trained staff, drug treatment facilities etc.Detail of overcrowding issues:- Less guards - less contact with prisoners - less chance for rehabilitation- Prisoners spend too long in cells - more tension with guards- Less hygienic, more self harm in young women,- Also really high rates of prisoners with mental health issues/ drug offenders - should be housed elseware- about 1/3 prisoners reoffend - more for children- Year to June 2017 - almost twice as many self harm incidents as female prisoners - 798 serous assaults to prison staff ( 25% rise)- Assault very 20 mins in UK
- Almost 1/4 prisoners assaulted annually
America : Also overcrowding problem - too many prisoners - 2/3 who leave return
- federal judge - one person dying a week from medical neglect, California
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