Parliament
12 mentions of the inquiry in Parliament since December 1990: debates, written questions and statements, oral questions and early day motions, from Hansard.
PRISONS AND THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WOOLF REPORT
That this House notes that on 31st January 2001, Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice, will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the submission of his Report on the Strangeways Riot by delivering the Prison Reform Trust Annual Lecture; notes that the Report recommended the stabilising of the prison population, improving prison regimes and establishing community prisons; notes further that despite these recommendations, the prison population has increased by in excess of 15,000 in the last 10 yea...
REFORM OF THE WOMEN'S PRISON SYSTEM
That this House regrets that neither the Woolf Report nor the Government White Paper on Prison Reform make any significant mention of the outstanding problems facing women prisoners; views with concern the findings of recent research, that women with fewer convictions are more likely to be sent to prison than their male counterparts and that women prisoners are punished more frequently than men; believes that separating babies and children from their mothers restricts the development of the c...
JUSTICE FOR REMAND PRISONERS
That this House is deeply concerned at the increase in the numbers of prisoners held on remand which have grown from 5,600 in 1975 to 10, 500 in 1989; condemns the fact that many remand prisoners are locked up for lengthy periods each day and that many are obliged to share cells with convicted prisoners; deplores the fact that large numbers of remand prisoners have to wait many months, or even years, before coming to trial; notes with dismay that the Woolf report stated that conditions for re...