{"id":20027,"date":"2013-01-12T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T11:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/12\/283135\/cuts-spell-disaster-for-british-prisons\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T12:22:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T11:22:51","slug":"cuts-spell-disaster-for-british-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/cuts-spell-disaster-for-british-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuts spell disaster for British prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Horrified prison officers have warned that Britain\u2019s whole justice system is heading for a meltdown after the coalition government announced plans to close seven jails.<\/p>\n<p>The Prison Officers Association&#8217;s Mark Freeman told the <em>Morning Star<\/em> newspaper, the decision to close seven prisons across Britain is &#8220;pandering to the private sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite widespread overcrowding and record prison populations, Conservative Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has cheerfully announced that he is axing the seven prisons across England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>HMP Bullwood Hall, Canterbury, Gloucester, Kingston, Shepton Mallet and Shrewsbury prisons are all set to close, while Chelmsford, Hull and the Isle of Wight will be partially decommissioned.<\/p>\n<p>Grayling has claimed that older prisons cost too much to preserve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is clear evidence that by replacing old uneconomic places with modern prison capacity we can drive substantial savings for the taxpayer and I am determined to do just that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, prisons that are marked for closure currently hold a combined 2,600 prisoners themselves, meaning prison capacity across England and Wales will shrink by more than 1,000 places on the whole.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Prison Reform Trust last August found 77 out of Britain&#8217;s 131 prisons hold more inmates than authorised levels, in some cases nearly double their capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the prison population in Britain is expected to hit 85,000 by next year on current projections.<\/p>\n<p>BGH\/AMR\/HE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Horrified prison officers have warned that Britain&rsquo;s whole justice system is heading for a meltdown after the coalition government announced plans to close seven jails.<\/p>\n<p>The Prison Officers Association&#8217;s Mark Freeman told the <em>Morning Star<\/em> newspaper, the decision to close seven prisons across Britain is &#8220;pandering to the private sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite widespread overcrowding and record prison populations, Conservative Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has cheerfully announced that he is axing the seven prisons across England and Wales.<\/p>\n<p>HMP Bullwood Hall, Canterbury, Gloucester, Kingston, Shepton Mallet and Shrewsbury prisons are all set to close, while Chelmsford, Hull and the Isle of Wight will be partially decommissioned.<\/p>\n<p>Grayling has claimed that older prisons cost too much to preserve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is clear evidence that by replacing old uneconomic places with modern prison capacity we can drive substantial savings for the taxpayer and I am determined to do just that,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, prisons that are marked for closure currently hold a combined 2,600 prisoners themselves, meaning prison capacity across England and Wales will shrink by more than 1,000 places on the whole.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by the Prison Reform Trust last August found 77 out of Britain&#8217;s 131 prisons hold more inmates than authorised levels, in some cases nearly double their capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the prison population in Britain is expected to hit 85,000 by next year on current projections.<\/p>\n<p>BGH\/AMR\/HE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}