Prison Service: Staff
(asked on 26th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps she is taking to increase prison staffing numbers.
This question was answered on 1st November 2016
I completely agree with the Honourable Lady that we do need appropriate staffing levels in our prisons. Prison officers are vital, both to maintaining safety but also in terms of turning offenders around. That’s why we’ve announced that in 10 of our most challenging prisons we are increasing staffing levels by 20% by March 2017. I will be saying more on the subject in the White Paper.