Safety in prisons


The POA prison officers’ union reported in late October that it was seeking urgent meetings with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) following the worst security and safety results in a decade. These included seven apparent homicides in prisons in the last 12 months. And last month, it highlighted that safety in custody statistics show that deaths in custody are up by 14%, self-harm by 21%, assaults by 13%, assaults on staff by 20% and serious assaults on staff by 42%. 


It warned that a failure to provide safe, secure and decent prisons would lead to its national executive advising members on measures to prevent or reduce risks to their health and safety, and that of other prison staff and prisoners.


http://www.poauk.org.uk/index.php?press-releases&newsdetail=20151112-2_poa-condemn-noms-and-the-government-for-the-continued-failure-to-provide-safe-decent-and-secure-prisons