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THE government is to step in to take over the running of scandal-hit private youth prison Medway Secure Training Centre from G4S.
It was at the centre of claims that staff assaulted children in their care.
A source told the BBC that the prison in Rochester, Kent, would be taken over by the Ministry of Justice and run through the National Offender Management Service by the end of July.
Working in a high-risk sector, prison officers’ calls for proper PPE must be heeded – and the POA will be fighting to ensure effective protection at work is delivered, writes MARK FAIRHURST
Despite Labour’s promises to bring things ‘in-house,’ the Justice Secretary has awarded notorious outsourcing outfit Mitie a £329 million contract to run a new prison — despite its track record of abuse and neglect in its migrant facilities, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
AN “alarming” ingress of drugs at a prison led to the most inmate deaths in Wales and England last year, inspectors reveal today.