Top Wardens Charged In UK Scandal
Two prison governors, the British equivalent to Wardens, have been charged with gross misconduct after vulnerable prisoners were tidied away before their jails were inspected, it is revealed in Prison Service reports. Reported by the Epoch Times.
Dame Anne Owers, chief inspector of prisons, states that Nick Leader at Pentonville and Ian Mulholland at Wandsworth transfered prisoners who were at risk of self-harm between the prisons they governed in May and June this year. Six transfers were made from Pentonvville to Wandsworth in May and returned immediately after the inspecters left. In June five men were transferd from Wandsworth to Pentonville also misssing the inspecters. Three other senior managers are named by Phil Wheatley, director general of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) as facing disciplinary action.
A report says the transfers were “completely pointless, irresposnsible and potentially dangerous.” Two prisoners from Wandsworth tried to kill themselves, one making four attempts shortly after arriving at Pentonville. Inspectors were told no transfers would happen but returned to Pentonville after a tip-off. Harry Fletcher of the probation union Nappo said what happened “could set matters back decades”. Both governors had been considered progressive …
Both govenors have been moved to other posts – Mr Mulholland is head of custody in Wales, Mr Leader is in charge of Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire. They have two weeks to respond.
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