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A door is closed by a prison guard at the Cookham Wood Young Offenders Institution in Rochester, January 17, 2014
STAFF and children at a failing young offenders’ institution have been left “in limbo” following a decision to close the facility, prison inspectors said yesterday.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) announced in April that Cookham Wood in Kent would shut following years of failure to improve conditions for young people.
Cookham Wood is to be turned into an adult prison in a bid to ease overcrowding in Britain’s jails.
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
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