An extra £14m is to be spent on 10 of the “most challenging” prisons and a campaign launched to recruit ex-armed forces staff as prison officers, the justice secretary is to announce. She is also to confirm that she will publish a new prison safety and reform plan “within weeks”, which will detail “the most far-reaching reforms of our prisons in a generation”. The 10 of the most challenging jails to receive the extra funding for more prison officers are Chelmsford, Eastwood Park, Exeter, Guys Marsh, Leeds, Liverpool, Moorland, Nottingham, Wayland and Winchester. On the new drive to recruit ex-soldiers and other service personnel to work as frontline prison officers, Truss is to say: “Who better to instil the virtues of discipline? They will help our prison officers lead the change.

Source: The Guardian October 03, 2016 22:52 UTC