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A general view of HMP Barlinnie in Glasgow
BRITAIN’s overcrowded prisons are internationally recognised as unfit for purpose, campaigners said today after a German court blocked the extradition of a suspected drug trafficker over human rights concerns.
Lawyer Jan-Carl Janssen won the release of a suspected Albanian drug dealer, who is accused of trafficking 5kg of cocaine and laundering about £330,000 while in Britain, by telling judges in south-west Germany about the inadequacies of British prisons.
Today, Howard League for Penal Reform campaigns director Andrew Neilson said: “Our prison conditions are not only unable to provide a healthy and safe environment for the people in them but are now internationally recognised as unfit for purpose.
PCS members face dangerous working conditions in crumbling buildings while the Common Platform IT system obstructs rather than streamlines operations — and Labour’s promised wave of insourcing has not materialised, writes SHARON McLEAN