Howard League report on Covid-19 risks

UCU has again written to prison education providers and the prison service [306kb] asking them to cease with immediate effect the skeleton staffing rotas within prison education departments.

This follows the publishing of a report on Covid-19 and prisons in England and Wales by the Howard League, which said: 'Despite the measures taken, including the restriction to longer periods to their cells, the limitations on the movements into and between prisons, the challenges in preventing prisoners from becoming exposed, are likely almost insurmountable, in my opinion. Action to address these issues in prisons is needed extremely urgently.'