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11 results found for '"Prison Officers Association"' in Keywords.
Hull Prison state of emergency (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Hull Prison governor Harold Parr on the decision to proclaim a state of emergency at the prison to ensure that prison officers return to normal working during the current national industrial action by the...
POA chairman on Risley Remand Centre riots (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Prison officers at Risley, Warrington have claimed that rioting prisoners virtually destroyed the remand centre’s education wing. But a management spokesman says the officers’ claims are exaggerated....
Prison officers’ dispute (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Terry McLaren, Prison Officers Association spokesman at Wandsworth Prison, warning London’s jails will be thrown into chaos on 03/05/90 when prison officers take industrial action in support...
Crisis in Britain’s jails (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
The chairman of the Prison Officers Association has strongly criticised the government and senior prison officials over Britain’s troubled jails. In a speech at the association’s annual conference in...
Strangeways prison riots (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Richard Dallyn interviews Home Office minister David Mellor on the Strangeways prison riots and claims by John Bartell, Chairman of the Prison Officers Association that the Government was criminally...
Strangeways prison riots background (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Chris Roberts reports on the background to the Strangeways Prison riots. Speakers are Father Noel Proctor (riot broke out at end of his church service); George Elliott, Prison Officers Association; worried...
X-ray machines at prisons (1991)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Report on Home Secretary Kenneth Baker facing press questions on X-ray machines in prisons for security after touring the new Belmarsh Prison and following the IRA terrorist jailbreak from Brixton Prison...
IRA terrorists escape from Brixton prison (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Secretary of the Prison Officers Association David Evans on four prison officers facing disciplinary action after two suspected IRA terrorists escaped from Brixton prison. He says the blame lies with the...
Prison services under fire (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Vice-Chairman of the Prison Officers Association, John Boddington, talks about the problems facing the prison service after a disturbance at Everthorpe Prison in Hull and the death of alleged serial killer...
Prison management concerns follow incidents (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
John Bartell, chairman of the Prison Officers Association on the issues facing prison officers after a second riot at Everthorpe Prison on Humberside in 24 hours and the escape of three inmates from...