It is that logic that perhaps explains why there are now only 42,000 staff in the National Offender Management Service in england and wales, while there were 19,000 back in 2010. But the logic of cutting prisons has perhaps reached a limit. The pressure of fewer staff in overcrowded jails has seen violence rise towards staff, other prisoners or in the form of self harm. Bad things are happening in ourjails, and its no surprise the president of the Prison Governors Association has written an open letter attacking the governments management of prisons. Heres elaine dunkley. Violence and rioting, volatility has gripped prisons in england and wales. Run. The pressure in our Prison Service building for staff and inmates. Get down. A breakdown in Law And Order caused by a shortage of staff and a growing Prison Population. A toxic mix according to the Prison Governors Association. Attacks on prison staff and drugs academic increasing concern around Mental Health and overcrowding, resources an
Ways, but they have plunged an entire population, entire generation into this building safety crisis. the government says that those tests were carried out to check the criteria for testing, rather than to assess the intrinsic safety of building materials. does that explanation to make sense to you? know because then they are saying any test failures should have reliably informed any test regimes going forward, the government is deeply flawed and only accepting the past and not actually publishing on all the failures. we actually need to see a retest of the governor s criteria from the class 0 types materials, to the modern modern european classes and get a full spectrum bandwidth of what passes, what fails, and who the police is and who is responsible for this crisis. put this back to government. they are the root cause of this crisis, they have allowed
Hall of fame horse trainer bob baffert suspended from the home of the kentucky derby for two years. andy scholes has more in this morning s bleacher report. hey, and. he. good morning. bob baffert has escaped major punishments for his horses being banned substances in the past but not this time around. churchill downs coming down hard on baffert, banning him from entering any horses at the named track for two years. this came hours after confirmation that a second drug sample taken after medina spirit s win at the kentucky derby came back positive for the banned steroid bet meth zone. the fifth baffert horse to test positive for a banned substance in the last year or so and churchill downs incorporated said baffert s record of test failures threatens public confidence in horse racing and the reputation of the kentucky derby. new york s racing commission had already banned baffert from