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Some snippets from Brendan O’Friel

Something that might be of interest to colleagues is a future RGN Butler Trust Winter symposium for Governors at Keeble College Oxford. This is reported on the internet under "Butler Trust" - and it sounds interesting and sensible about the difficulties that Governors are currently facing. 

On 29th February, the MoJ released their projections for the prison population for the next 5 years - the projected rise is startling - with a low of 95,000, a median of 105,000 and a high of 115,000. God help the Service! The figures are on the MoJ website. 

HMP Lowdham Grange is returning to the public sector following a poor inspection.

POST ( Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology) which provides impartial briefs for MP’s and the public has produced Brief 58 ‘Prison Population Growth: Drivers, Implications and Policy Considerations.’ It is a good summary of how bad things are for the service.

Regards Brendan

Issue 90 - Spring 2024