prison staff
Coverage of prison staff in the Nexus archive.
- Southport killer Axel Rudakubana charged with attacking prison staff
Axel Rudakubana, serving a life sentence for the 2024 murders of three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event in Southport, has been charged with multiple assaults on prison staff. The attack in 2024 resulted in the deaths of Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar.
- ‘Like working in a kettle’: France’s overcrowded prisons swelter under historic heatwave
France's overcrowded prisons are struggling under a historic heatwave, with multiple detainees crammed into single-occupancy cells. Analysts and prison staff criticize the penal system's reliance on mass incarceration as a crime-fighting strategy.
- Reform UK civil service plan ‘would sack more planning officers than exist’
Reform UK's civil service reform plan, led by MP Danny Kruger, proposes cutting 13% of civil service roles to save £5bn annually. The analysis reveals the plan would eliminate more planning officers than currently exist and reduce prison staff-supporting psychologists by two-thirds.