UK's most vulnerable and dangerous inmates live side by side in solitary

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtOtttHS19qOWd1Kkx_xNLwvZkrqHjzVLAyJK_g25VPctJPvqIgRBHBMqGIzwlx0IKTf-QVrYuLzdyAcQqzG8f5P7ynuk4HD-xfBc0y-d2tKKvUxAdsQwOyjkYAQmiDjc1CmIHQEe7YDas/s1600/4368.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtOtttHS19qOWd1Kkx_xNLwvZkrqHjzVLAyJK_g25VPctJPvqIgRBHBMqGIzwlx0IKTf-QVrYuLzdyAcQqzG8f5P7ynuk4HD-xfBc0y-d2tKKvUxAdsQwOyjkYAQmiDjc1CmIHQEe7YDas/s320/4368.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Solitary confinement, or segregation as it is known in <a href="http://collective-news24.blogspot.com/search/label/UK" target="_blank">British</a> prisons, is used fairly sparingly in prisons in England and Wales, according to the European Prison Observatory.<br /><br />The total segregation capacity of prisons in England and Wales was 1,586 cells in 2015, including 54 places in “close supervision centres”, which house some of the most dangerous men in the <a href="http://freedownload-pc-software.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">system</a>. Not every prison has a segregation unit.<br /><br />British penal practice differs from that of many other European countries in that segregation units are used not only to isolate inmates for reasons of order and discipline, but also to separate vulnerable prisoners who are at risk of self-harm or harm from others.<br /><br />More than a third of 50 prisoners interviewed for a 2015 Prison Reform Trust (PRT) study, Deep Custody, said they had deliberately engineered a move into segregation in order to escape violence or lack of discipline on general prison wings or to raise concerns about their treatment and conditions.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">The PRT study found that almost one in 10 prisoners had spent at least one night in segregation, which it described as “complex places where some of the prison’s most challenging individuals are confined alongside some of the most vulnerable people, within a small enclosed space”.<br /><br />The specialist close supervision centres (CSCs), or “prisons within a prison”, are sometimes referred as “a secret <a href="http://collective-news24.blogspot.com/search/label/World" target="_blank">world</a> within the high-security estate” and described as “like a submarine”, with little light and austere cages for exercise yards.<br /><br />Prisoners’ complaints about their isolation are often couched in terms of mental torture. A recent prison inspectors’ report highlighted concerns about potential mental health problems and the disproportionate number of black and Muslim men held in the <a href="http://freedownload-pc-software.blogspot.com/search/label/Antivirus" target="_blank">system</a>, but also described the humanity and care of staff as impressive.<br /><br />The report concluded that CSCs provided the means to manage the most dangerous men in a way that minimised the risks to others, while offering them decent and safe basic conditions.<br /><br />The PRT report said those in the more general segregation units also experienced a combination of <a href="http://collective-news24.blogspot.com/search/label/Regions" target="_blank">social</a> isolation, inactivity and increased control that was proven to harm mental health and wellbeing.<br /><br />The average stay in CSCs is more than 40 months, but the overwhelming majority – 71% – of those on the general units spend less than 14 days in segregation.<br /><br />They often endure impoverished regimes comprising little more than a short period of exercise, a shower, a phone call and meals. The 20 to 30 minutes of exercise is well short of the UN’s Mandela rules, which require a minimum of 60 minutes.</span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Please <a href="http://adf.ly/1ZsM8w" target="_blank">Click here</a> to Find out Post credit.</span></span></div> </div>

UK's most vulnerable and dangerous inmates live side by side in solitary

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Brexit would leave UK ‘permanently poorer’, says George Osborne

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Chancellor issues warning in Times article as Treasury claims Britain’s economy would shrink 6% by 2030. Britain would be “permanently poorer” if voters choose to leave the EU, George Osborne has warned, as a Treasury study claimed the economy would shrink by 6% by 2030, costing every household the equivalent of £4,300 a year.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFg3akRvGzwSnIk0t7lclMe8KQuIGvM3mdN0S11RRcqCLKrkV6EAAnWxFpE9y77Xo4hM6yGNvdmOrZL9-NI_HjmbxJYVaq4io0t-nZA0LG0COeTv3d-NwFGXevWOFgz95L3m67tUzWrJD6/s1600/uk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFg3akRvGzwSnIk0t7lclMe8KQuIGvM3mdN0S11RRcqCLKrkV6EAAnWxFpE9y77Xo4hM6yGNvdmOrZL9-NI_HjmbxJYVaq4io0t-nZA0LG0COeTv3d-NwFGXevWOFgz95L3m67tUzWrJD6/s320/uk.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the starkest warning so far by the government in the referendum campaign, the chancellor describes Brexit as the “most extraordinary self-inflicted wound”.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Osborne will embark on one of the government’s most significant moves in the referendum campaign on Monday when he publishes a 200-page Treasury report which sets out the costs and benefits of EU membership.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In a Times article the chancellor wrote: “The conclusion is clear for Britain’s economy and for families – leaving the EU would be the most extraordinary self-inflicted wound.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Osborne warned that the option favoured by Boris Johnson – a deal along the lines of the EU-Canada arrangement – would lead to an economic contraction of 6% by 2030. Supporters of Britain’s EU membership say the EU-Canadian deal would be a disaster for the UK because it excludes financial services, a crucial part of the British economy.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The chancellor asked whether this was a “price worth paying” as he said there was no other model for the UK that gave it access to the single market without quotas and tariffs while retaining a say over the rules.........................................</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Osborne continued: “Put simply‎: over many years, are you better off or worse off if we leave the EU? The answer is: Britain would be worse off, permanently so, and to the tune of £4,300 a year for every household.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“It is a well-established doctrine of economic thought that greater openness and interconnectedness boosts the productive potential of our economy. That’s because being an open economy increases competition between our companies, making them more efficient in the face of consumer choice, and creates incentives for business to innovate and to adopt new technologies.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Treasury report is understood to examine three options for a post Brexit deal, according to the BBC:</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• A Norwegian-style deal in which the UK has access to the EU’s single market. The UK would still make contributions to the EU budget but has no say over the rules.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• A deal along the lines of the EU-Canada deal.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">• The so-called “clean break” or World Trade Organisation option, in which the UK trades with the rest of the EU and other nations along the rules laid down by the WTO.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The three options all have downsides, according to the report. The prediction of a 6% drop in GDP is drawn from the middle option.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The chancellor wrote: “The treasury analysis shows that under all plausible alternatives to British membership of the EU we would have a less open and interconnected economy – not just with Europe but, crucially, with the rest of the world. There would be less trade, less investment and less business. Leave the EU and the facts are: Britain would be permanently poorer. Britain’s families would be permanently poorer too.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">John Redwood, the former Tory cabinet minister campaigning for Brexit, dismissed the chancellor’s warnings. Redwood said: “The prime minister was one of the senior advisers working in the Treasury while John Major’s government tried to keep this country in the EU’s disastrous exchange rate mechanism. The ERM destroyed jobs and caused misery for families across the country. The remainers were wrong then, and they are wrong now – people should not trust their judgment on the EU.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The attempt by the chancellor to paint an exit from the EU as a dangerous step was reinforced by the French economy minister, Emmanuel Macron, who said the UK would be “completely killed” in global trade negotiations if it voted to leave. Macron told the Andrew Marr Show on BBC1: “I think UK is not about becoming Jersey or Guernsey. Today, you are strong because you are part of the EU. When you discuss your steel industry with China you are credible because you are part of the EU, not because you are just UK. You will be completely killed otherwise.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">David Davis, the former Europe minister, said David Cameron could remain as prime minister after a vote to leave the EU but would have to hand the breakup negotiations with Brussels to a minister who had supported exit. Davis took issue with the former chancellor Kenneth Clarke, who said Cameron would be out of No 10 in 30 seconds if Britain left the EU.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Davis said: “If we vote for Brexit then it is clear that David Cameron can’t lead that bit of his government’s activities, the renegotiations. He would have to appoint somebody who the public had faith in, his party had faith in but, most importantly, who believed in the negotiation. If he did that I don’t see any reason why he shouldn’t go on.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Downing Street is hoping the campaign to keep Britain in the EU will receive a boost this week when Barack Obama endorses Britain’s membership of the EU. Boris Johnson has accused the US president of hypocrisy because Washington would never agree to surrender sovereignty in the way EU member states do. Grayling said Obama did not understand the nature of the pooling of sovereignty among EU member states.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The head of BHP Billiton, one of the biggest mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, has also warned of the uncertainty an exit would provoke. Andrew MacKenzie, the Scottish-born BHP chief executive, will say in a speech on Monday night that the “unknowns of Brexit are unwelcome at a time when Europe and the world economy need certainty and stability”.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Chris Grayling, the leader of the Commons and one of a handful of cabinet ministers backing Brexit, questioned the way in which Downing Street and the Treasury were using government resources to campaign for a pro-EU vote. He highlighted the recent £9.3m leaflet, due to be sent to all UK households before the referendum. “It is certainly not being treated by voters as an independent, authoritative document. Therefore it is right and proper they should be very sceptical about some of its contents.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Post Credit: <i><b>T</b></i></span><span style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>heguardian</b></span></span></span></div> </div>

Brexit would leave UK ‘permanently poorer’, says George Osborne

Chancellor issues warning in Times article as Treasury claims Britain’s economy would shrink 6% by 2030. Britain would be “permanently poo...

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