For years the POA has been calling for urgent action to address overcrowding and understaffing in our prisons and long term action to address offending and reoffending rates but successive Ministers have ignored our calls.
Press Releases
PR 267: 'BRING IT BACK’ CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR PRISON MAINTENANCE TO BE BROUGHT BACK ‘IN-HOUSE
Labour should deliver on its promise to introduce the “biggest wave of insourcing in a generation” by bringing prisons maintenance contracts back “in house”, says the union representing the UK’s 32,000 Prison Officers and Operational Support Staff.
PR 266: PRISON OFFICERS UNION CALLS FOR URGENT ACTION TO ADDRESS SITUATION AT HMP DURHAM
The Union representing the UK’s 35,000 prison officers has called for urgent action to address longstanding concerns of their members at HMP Durham.
PR 265: PRISON OFFICERS UNION CALLS FOR ACTION TO ADDRESS VIOLENCE IN PRISON
The Union representing the UK’s 35,000 Prison and Operational Support Grade Officers is calling for urgent action to address soaring levels of violence in jails in England and Wales.
PR 264: PRISON OFFICERS AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT STAFF NEED A PAY RISE SAY UNION
Prison Officers and those working in Operational Support Grades in England and Wales need an urgent pay rise to help address recruitment and retention problems across the prison estate.
PR 263: PRISON OFFICERS ASSOCIATION COMMENTS ON THE HER MAJESTY’S INSPECTORATE OF PRISONS REPORT IN HMP WINCHESTER
Union says Winchester is a damning example of the crisis in the Prison Service
PR 262: RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION CRISIS IS PUTTING STAFF AND PRISONERS AT RISK UNION LEADER TELLS LORDS COMMITTEE
In a blistering evidence session to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee Mark Fairhurst, National Chair of the Prison Officers Association told the committee that a major crisis in recruitment and retention is destabilising prisons and endangering staff and prisoners.
261: RESPONDING TO THE UNANNOUNCED INSPECTION REPORT OF HMP MANCHESTER THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN 17TH SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER 3RD 2024.
“This is a shocking report that exposes widespread organised criminal activity, serious violence and rampant drugs misuse as commonplace in this Prison.
PR 260: RESPONDING TO THE UNANNOUNCED INSPECTION REPORT OF LONG LARTIN THAT TOOK PLACE IN OCTOBER 2024
“This Inspection Report is further evidence of the crisis in the UK’s prisons. The use of drones to deliver drugs and phones into the jail, low morale amongst staff, rising levels of violence, poor and unsanitary conditions and high levels of sickness absence were all identified by inspectors who visited Long Lartin.”
PR 259: PRISON OFFICERS DID NOT SIGN-UP TO BE ‘PUNCHBAGS’ UNION TELLS MPs
The Chair of the trade union that represents the UK’s 32,000 Prison Officers told MPs of the intolerable pressures faced by staff working in the country’s prisons and the impact it is having on prisoner rehabilitation.
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