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The president of the National Council of Independent Monitoring Boards, John Thornhill, has pointed out that disturbance at HMP Birmingham is “yet more evidence” of concerns regarding the rising levels of violence they have pointed out at several occasions. In his remarks, Thornhill pointed that IMBs – which provide a monitoring presence in every prison in England and Wales – have regularly questioned staffing levels and regimes across many establishments in recent years.
Mr Thornhill explained that “IMBs are perturbed that their dedication to the monitoring role on a weekly basis is frustrated by a failure to respond to the issues raised at a national level in their annual reports.” He warned that low staffing levels mean prisoners are denied access to a range of facilities. According to Thornhill, “they become frustrated, tension and violence increase and become more widespread.” He added that “the result, as we have seen in recent weeks, is an increase in riots that damage the system and individuals. The impact of this unrestrained violence is that a large number of prisoners have to be transferred to other prisons that are already stretched with their own problems and staffing issues.”
Justice Secretary Liz Truss is set to address the MPs on the riot at HMP Birmingham on Monday afternoon. The incident resulted in hundreds of inmates wreaking havoc in the jail and it was the third major disturbance in less than two months following trouble at Bedford and Lewes prisons.
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