The number of jails causing “serious concern” has risen from six to ten and includes Wormwood Scrubs, Wandsworth, Brixton, Liverpool and Birmingham Anthony Devlin/PAThe performance of ten jails in England and Wales is now causing “serious concern” according to the latest ratings issued today by the justice ministry. A further 39 are of “concern” under annual jail ratings looking at the peformance of prisons across the country. The figures mean that the performance of almost half the prisons in England and Wales are either of “serious concern” or “concern” to senior prison service officials. The number of jails causing serious concern has risen from six to ten in a year and among them are Wormwood Scrubs, Wandsworth, Brixton, Liverpool and the G4S-run Birmingham. Other figures released show that incidence of violence and self-harm in prisons is rising and that 71 prisoners were freed by mistake, seven more than…

Source: The Times July 27, 2017 11:03 UTC