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Kat Keogh B'ham Post 4 Aug 10
Teaching staff at three West Midlands prisons were going on strike today in a row over contracts. Some workers claim they could lose up to £7,000 pay in the dispute over terms and conditions.
About 100 members of the University and College Union (UCU) at HMP Birmingham in Winson Green, and HMP Brinsford and HMP Featherstone in Wolverhampton are taking action against the Manchester College (TMC) in a one-day walkout…
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BBC News 2 Aug 10
Four officers have been suspended at a young offenders institute near Wolverhampton.
The Ministry of Justice said it was investigating staff behaviour at Brinsford Young Offenders’ Institute during four separate incidents…
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BBC News 3 Jun 10
A youth prison near Wolverhampton must do more to protect inmates, according to a report.
It revealed a third of detainees at Brinsford Young Offenders Institution told government inspectors they had been victimised by other prisoners…
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Beacon Radio 31 Mar 10
Police are appealing for help to trace a violent criminal originally from Wednesbury, who is wanted for recall to prison after breaching the strict conditions of his parole licence. Darren Abraham, aged 31,who was released on licence under MAPPA arrangements on Friday 30 October 2008 due to his violent criminal history, has absconded from his designated address in the borough.
Abraham, is also known as Checka by his friends and family, and he is described as white, 6ft 2ins tall and of medium build. He has blue eyes and short brown hair…
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B’ham Mail 8 Feb 10
A gay crook has accused prison guards of breaching his human rights because they confiscated homosexual porn he bought at Winson Green. John O’Reilly claims guards at HMP Dovegate in Staffordshire nabbed the mags when he was transferred there from HMP Birmingham…
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Ben Goldby Mercury 3 Jan 10
Hardened inmates at HMP Brinsford, near Wolverhampton, are terrified of entering a “possessed” cell after two near identical suicides in less than a year. The lock-up is being avoided by spooked lags after the deaths took place on the same day of the week – at the same time…
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B’ham Mail 24 Nov 09
Prison officers in the Midlands may strike over ‘dangerous’ staffing levels and allegations of workplace bullying. Warders at HMP Liverpool walked out last week after a bitter row with managers who they accused of ruling with iron fists. Three other jails joined the industrial action and crisis talks are due to take place on Wednesday to avert a repeat of the 2007 nationwide strike…
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Ben Goldby Mercury 1 Nov 09
A killer dad who bludgeoned a man to death on his front lawn has written to a newspaper branding Britain’s yob culture “sickening”. Andrew Reeves, 42, was jailed for life last year for murdering Darryl Cowles, 35, after spotting him urinating in his garden in Brownhills…
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Nick McCarthy B'ham Post 13 Oct 09
A prison for young offenders says it is under severe pressure because of a “significant increase” in its lifer population. A report from Staffordshire’s Swinfen Hall YOI, near Lichfield, has revealed that the total lifer and indeterminate prison population has increased but funding has been cut…
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The Mail 19 Sep 09
Featherstone prison teacher Faye Bray shocked viewers on Saturday night’s X Factor by shedding her dowdy work image and vamping up in burlesque style stockings, suspenders and corset. The 28-year-old from Cannock impressed the judges with her rendition of Tina Turner classic River Deep, Mountain High…