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independent monitoring board
Coverage of independent monitoring board in the Nexus archive.
- Grim reality of prison conditions laid bare in damning report
A report reveals that inmates in England and Wales face overcrowded, unsanitary prison conditions with vermin presence and gang control over entire wings. The independent monitoring board warns these failures risk becoming normalized.
- Corrupt Liverpool prison worker jailed for smuggling drugs and sending sex texts to inmates
Helen Spree, head of the independent monitoring board for HMP Liverpool, was jailed for five years for smuggling drugs and sending sexual messages to inmates, including Dylan Westall, a life-sentenced killer. The corruption involved illicit chats with prisoners over 20 months.