Press releases archive

28th December 2007
POA Fully Support Police Federation

28th November 2007
Prison Service Attempt to Stop Charitable Collection By The POA

28th November 2007
Union Members Threatened With Sack

27th November 2007
Union Members Threatened With Sack

21st November 2007
Prison Officers Gather in Southport

16th November 2007
Prison Population Forces the Service into Crisis Management

12th November 2007
Tories to Head Study on Penal Reform

25th October 2007
National Training Awards

24th October 2007
Crisis in Prisons Continues

19th October 2007
Prison Population Reaches Record High

19th October 2007
Black Day For New Labour

16th October 2007
Government U-Turn Puts Public at Risk
12th October 2007
Government Pay Submission Treats Prison Officers With Contempt
10th October 2007
Straw Threatens To "Shackle" Union
17th September 2007
Straw Has Option to Throw Oil on Troubled Waters
13th September 2007
Prison Service Serve Eviction Notices
10th September 2007
Union's Dismay at Brown's Policy on Public Sector Pay
5th September 2007
POA Fringe Meeting - TUC Congress - Brighton
4th September 2007
Union Pays Tribute to British Press
31st August 2007
Strike Breakers to Receive £500 Bung from Prison Service
29th August 2007
Talks to Take Place to End POA Disputes
29th August 2007
National Strike Impacts at Local Level
29th August 2007
Union Ignored Over Pay Deal
29th August 2007
POA Calls National Strike
16th August 2007
Prison Officers Vote for Strike Action
2nd July 2007
Problems Mount for New Home Secretary
19th June 2007
Gordon Brown Promises Extra Prison Places
19th June 2007
Gas Used to Remove Young Prisoners from Rooftop
19th June 2007
Prisoners to be Given Get Out of Jail Card
11th June 2007
One Year On - Union Learns Celebrates its 1st Birthday
7th June 2007
Meeting in an Attempt to Avert Wholesale Disruption of Prisons
6th June 2007
Failures of Acklington Prison Identified in Chief Inspector's Report
23rd May 2007
David Davis Addresses The POA's Annual Conference 2007
22nd May 2007
Shadow Home Secretaries Address POA Conference
22nd May 2007
Smoking or No Smoking
18th May 2007
Record Prison Numbers
8th May 2007
The POA Condemn The Director General of The Prison Service Following The Failed Court Proceedings
8th May 2007
POA Welcomes the Decision of John Reid to Resign as Home Secretary
3rd May 2007
Staffing Crisis in Britain's Prisons
16th April 2007
POA Ignored By NOMS Chief Executive
16th April 2007
POA Calls On The Government to End Privatisation of Prisons
5th April 2007
Open Prisons Once Again Become Dumping Ground and Place Public at Risk
4th April 2007
"Prisoner Undercover" Documentary - Channel 4 Clarifies Their Position to The POA
3rd April 2007
“Prisoner Undercover" Documentary - POA Calls On Government to Act and Channel 4 to Compensate
29th March 2007
Leaders of The POA Condemn the Practice of Undercover Filming in Prisons
27th February 2007
Prison Officer Receives Fractured Skull in Prison Riot at Young Offenders Institution
12th February 2007
POA National Chairman Visits HMP Shotts in Scotland
2nd February 2007
Leaders of The POA Face Imprisonment
30th January 2007
Chief Inspector Adds Pressure to Crumbling Prison Service
30th January 2007
Safety of Open Prisons Leads to Debate
29th January 2007
Home Secretary Orders POA to Operate Unsafe Prisons
26th January 2007
Has the Enforcer Over Stepped the Line?
26th January 2007
Prison Overcrowding "Talk is Cheap" as Lip Service is Paid to Prisons Crisis
26th January 2007
Covert Racism Within The Prison Service
24th January 2007
Prisons Bursting at the Seams?
19th January 2007
New Prison Announced in Merseyside
18th January 2007
Prison Service Place Public at Risk
15th January 2007
Serious Failings Within the Open Prison Estate
10th January 2007
Gang Warfare Within Prisons
9th January 2007
POA Condemn Prison Service Prisoner Categorisation Policy
8th January 2007
Dangerous Prisoner at Large
4th December 2006
Union Leaders Furious as MPs Campaign For 66% Pay Increase
29th November 2006
Riot at Harmondsworth
7th November 2006
POA Accuse Reid of Playing Politics With Public Safety
9th October 2006
Prison Bursting at the Seams

4th October 2006
POA Issue Warning Over Prison Population Crisis

19th September 2006
Union Leaders in Court Facing Imprisonment

18th September 2006
Prison Officers Call National Strike

13th September 2006
Staff Shortages Place Prison in Crisis

5th September 2006
Agreement Put Forward to Call an End to Threat of Strike Action

5th September 2006
POA Launches Legal Action Against The Prison Service

30th August 2006
Message From National Chairman Issue 13 - Pay Dispute Update 2

24th August 2006
Message From National Chairman Issue 12 - Pay Dispute Update

16th August 2006
How Safe Will the Public Be?

16th August 2006
Prison Overcrowding
7th August 2006
Prisoner Release Scandal
7th July 2006
Prison Officers to Disrupt UK Prison Service
7th July 2006
POA Anger at Home Secretary
5th July 2006
Prison Officers to Ballot Regarding National Strike Action
29th June 2006
Unannounced Inspection of HMP Dartmoor 13 and 14 February 2006
27th June 2006
Prison Officers Respond to Chief Inspector Report on Whitemoor Prison
19th June 2006
Full Announced Inspection of HMP Kingston 28 November - 2 December 2005
13th June 2006
Unannounced Full Follow Up Inspection of HMP Swaleside - 11 - 20 January 2006
13th June 2006
Full Announced Inspection of HMP Coldingley - 14 - 18 November 2005
5th June 2006
Prisons Minister to Meet POA Officials
30th May 2006
Crisis Looms in Prisons
26th May 2006
Foundation Hospitals
23rd May 2006
Home Office face Another Crisis in the Prison Service
22nd May 2006
Prison Overcrowding Embarrasses Home Secretary
25th April 2006
Prison Officers Reject Pay Offer
30th March 2006
Prison Officers to Ballot Over "Derisory" Pay Award
30th March 2006
POA Leadership Struggles to Calm Membership from Balloting for Strike Over "Derisory" Pay Award
30th March 2006
Jail Staff Demand Action by Union Leaders Over Apalling Pay Award
30th March 2006
POA National Executive Committee Face Calls from Membership for Strike Action Over 1.6% Pay Rise
30th March 2006
Prison Officers Coping with Terrorist Inmates Rebel at 1.6% Pay Rise
21st March 2006
POA Calls for More Psychiatric Units to Care for Mentally Ill Offenders
22nd February 2006
POA Disgust At Home Secretary's Legal Threat
20th October 2005
POA refute overcrowding leads to increases in suicides
17th October 2005
Re-Election of POA National Chairman
13th October 2005
Tagging for Profit
11th October 2005
POA - The Criminal Justice Trade Union Warns of Loss of Control in the Juvenile Prison Estate
7th October 2005
Disturbance - Hindley Young Offenders Institution
9th September 2005
Working in Criminal Justice: Challenges for Government, Unions and Employers
2nd September 2005
Heads of Agreement Update
27th May 2005
Prison Officers Call for Dismantling of National Offender Management Service
26th May 2005
Director General of the Prison Service Addresses POA Conference
9th May 2005
Suicides in Prisons
19th May 2005
POA Welcomes Home Secretary's Decision
22nd April 2005
Suicides in Prison - Doctor Harold Shipman
22nd March 2005
Labour Government Restores Trades Union Rights
22nd March 2005
POA Condemns Prison Privatisation

 

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