Newly renovated HM Berwyn Prison located in Wales is shown above.
By viewing this page, you will learn some new innovative ideas and suggestions on how we can improve the prisons in the United Kingdom.
The future of UK has a lot of unknowns, nothing promising when it comes to data. We are aware that there is a clear strategic national plan required to meet new CPT recommendations, including financing of prisons. It has hopes of reducing the size of prison populations and improving the prison estate. One way of doing this is by creating safer and better quality cellular accommodations and ensuring better provisions of education and employment inside and outside the prison system. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised an extra 10,000 new prison places will be created and expanded. The government said the plans showed it was “very serious about fighting crime". The 10,000 new prison places are expected to be created by building new jails and expanding existing ones. The Ministry of Justice said the first new prison will be built next to the maximum security jail at HMP Full Sutton. But plans already announced there have been drawbacks from police, who said it would increase violent crime in the jail. Prime Minister Johnson said the investment was long overdue. Another initiative the Prime Minister committed to was improving prison security, he pledged $134 US million dollars. The money will go toward airport-style technology, including X-ray scanners and metal detectors, to prevent drugs, weapons and mobile phones getting into jails, and strengthening the Counter Corruption Unit.
Shown above is the National Institute for Health Protection building located in London, they put proposals in place to improve prisons.
UK National Institute for Health Research is committed to improve health service access, reduce widening health inequalities, and improve health outcomes through telemedicine promises. It is hypothesized that telemedicine will reduce referral to treatment times for patients, increase access to a wider range of specialist services such as gender identity clinics, reduce the waiting time to gatekeeping assessments under the Mental Health Act, and increase overall access to general appointments. United Kingdom Prison Reform Trust will be a huge influence in changes throughout the UK prisons. We will influence decision makers, opinion formers and the public to reduce the use of prisons, improve conditions for prisoners, and promote equality and human rights in the whole criminal justice system. The goal to reduce the use of prisons will be strategized through only having the most serious crimes will result in sentencing to a jail and sentences to make full and constructive use of time inside, not allowing for time to destroy hope. The plan to improve conditions includes a framework of rights for prisoners as citizens, a purposeful way of life as a prisoner, opportunity for prisoners to make amends with those they have harmed, own up to responsibility, and for prisons to not be overcrowded. For promoting equality and human rights, the solution proposed include tackling discrimination and protecting while improving the framework of rights.
Shown here is the old National Institute of Medical Research in Mill Hill, UK.
Typically in the UK, prisoners access secondary care offsite at local hospitals while being handcuffed and accompanied by an officer. Most report feelings of dehumanization, stigma, stereotyped, and judgment from the hospital staff. Once receiving this health care from hospitals, long waits usually happen from the communication to the inmate or follow up appointments take longer to find prison officers to take them due to being short staffed. The use of telemedicine could transform the care process and alleviate all issues while improving the experience for patients.
Although Covid has stopped certain reforms from happening in the UK, uncertainty and hopelessness and spread throughout the prisons. Their mental health is vulnerable. The government must set out its exit strategies for prisoners that mirror the rest of the countries. The goal is to start spending smarter and to cut down on the lengthy sentences. The cost of short term prison sentences versus long term sentences could impact finances tremendously. Prison is supposed to be a rehabilitation center not a place where countless lives are still being taken.
Although Covid has stopped certain reforms from happening in the UK, uncertainty and hopelessness and spread throughout the prisons. Their mental health is vulnerable. The government must set out its exit strategies for prisoners that mirror the rest of the countries. The goal is to start spending smarter and to cut down on the lengthy sentences. The cost of short term prison sentences versus long term sentences could impact finances tremendously. Prison is supposed to be a rehabilitation center not a place where countless lives are still being taken.