Prison Officers Association

Type: Organization
Name: Prison Officers Association
First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Son's pride at medals for hero dad

William Barker would never talk about the war, right up to his death in 2005 at the age of 84.The only sign of him ever being involved in the conflict was a scar from a bullet wound on his ankle.Now his son Colin Barker, of Queenborough, has reclaimed ... [Published Sittingbourne Messenger - May 19 2013]
First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Lavery slams privatisation

Labour MP Ian Lavery urged workers to struggle to their "dying breath" against Con-Dem privatisation plans today. He hit out at "evil" privatisation plans in a whirlwind tour of the Fire Brigades Union and the Prison Officers Association conferences. ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 16 2013]
First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

New phone system for nations prisons

The TT Prisons Service is exploring the provision of a system to allow inmates to make authorised calls from the nations prisons.At present inmates are not allowed to make calls directly out of the prisons, and there is the problem of illegal cellphones ... [Published Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday - May 14 2013]
First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Private-sector incompetence

Shouldn't the small group of private conglomerates backed by the government to take over our public services be expected at least to dream up new excuses for poor performance? Whether it's a prison, a railway or a utility, the same glib rhetoric spills ... [Published Morning Star Online - May 14 2013]
First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Subhas: Hire elite team to deal with phones in prisons

Former minister in the Ministry of National Security Subhas Panday makes a point during his news conference yesterday.Former minister in the Ministry of National Security Subhas Panday believes a well-paid independent elite team should be hired by the ... [Published Trinidad Guardian - May 09 2013]
First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 04 2013 - 2 reports

Hundreds of prisoners in lock-up for own safety

One in seven prisoners is under protection because of potential risks to their lives.The stark figure was revealed yesterday by the director general of the Irish Prison Service, Michael Donnellan, who admitted that it posed a huge challenge to the jail ... [Published Irish Independent - May 04 2013]
First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Prison officers: ?We can?t deal with 16-year-olds ? we?re not child carers?

IRELAND?S PRISON OFFICERS have said extra specialised training should be offered to staff in facilities housing juvenile offenders ? arguing that their present training is adequate to deal with the specific circumstances of under-18s.The annual conference ... [Published TheJournal.ie - May 03 2013]
First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 3 reports

Shatter claims judges not using enough community service orders

JUDGES have been rapped by Justice Minister Alan Shatter for sending too many minor criminals to jail instead of ordering them to carry out community service.He accused the judges of underutilising legislation he had introduced in 2011 obliging the courts ... [Published Irish Independent - May 03 2013]
First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 7 reports

Prison officer president warning to Minister on pay

The President of the Irish Prison Officers Association has warned the Minister for Justice Alan Shatter that his members will not support any measures which are more stringent that the package of proposals that was already reluctantly accepted by our ... [Published Leinster Express - May 02 2013]
First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

POA plans strike ballot if further cuts imposed

The Prison Officers' Association has said it will recommend that prison officers go on strike if the Government imposes any further pay cuts on them.The association, which begins its annual conference in Athlone, Co Westmeath today, said it will not accept ... [Published RTE Online - May 02 2013]
First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Bring in the bulldozers to the Maze site

As a sister of a murdered prison officer, I totally agree with the chairman of the Prison Officers’ Association. ... [Published NewsLetter - May 01 2013]
First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 4 reports

Unionist calls for Maze cells which housed hunger strikers to be flattened

The H block cells and hospital where republican hunger strikers like Bobby Sands died should be flattened, some unionists claimed today.A petition calling for prison buildings at the Maze site to be de-listed and demolished and a controversial peace centre ... [Published Belfast Telegraph - Apr 23 2013]

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"But mention Michael Noonan and you are on a winner. He is seen as the one who has steadied the ship and kept it going forwards. He is Kenny's cornerstone."
..."Privatisation is the root of all evil within the public sector," he told firefighters in Blackpool. "Do me one favour and fight until your dying breath against privatisation, because it won't just be yourselves or your families who will suffer as a consequence of privatisation, it'll be the public who rely on services." He slammed the government for sacking 450 public-sector workers every day of its
...prisoners turn their lives around," but the response of Serco custodial services director Wyn Jones is straight out of clichés corner listed above. "Much remains to be done, but this is a very positive start" he said. The report should not have come as a surprise to the National Offender Management Service, the government or Serco because the Prison Officers...
Almost 2,000 votes is very creditable particularly because the Labour Party message on the street used the scare tactic of "if you vote TUSC you will let the right-wing present mayor back in"

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Are you right there, Michael? [Published Irish Independent - May 19 2013]
Son's pride at medals for hero dad [Published Sittingbourne Messenger - May 19 2013]
Portland prison set to become detention centre ... [Published Dorset Echo - May 18 2013]
Lavery slams privatisation [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 16 2013]
Private-sector incompetence [Published Morning Star Online - May 14 2013]
Tuesday 14 May [Published Royal College of Nursing - May 14 2013]
New phone system for nations prisons [Published Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday - May 14 2013]
Martinez: Illegal cellphones biggest challenge ... [Published Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday - May 11 2013]
Criminals to spend a year under supervision aft... [Published Metro.co.uk - May 09 2013]
Subhas: Hire elite team to deal with phones in ... [Published Trinidad Guardian - May 09 2013]
Capitalist parties rejected: Time for a new mas... [Published Socialist Party - May 08 2013]
IPRT calls for consistency in sentencing [Published RTE Online - May 08 2013]
Hundreds of prisoners in lock-up for own safety [Published Irish Independent - May 04 2013]
Mountjoy to end antiquated practice of slopping... [Published Irish Times - May 03 2013]
Prison officers: ?We can?t deal with 16-year-ol... [Published TheJournal.ie - May 03 2013]
Prisoners’ complaints about officers without fo... [Published Irish Times - May 03 2013]
Shatter claims judges not using enough communit... [Published Irish Independent - May 03 2013]
POA calls for special prison for criminal gangs [Published RTE Online - May 03 2013]
September referendum on new court of appeal [Published Irish Times - May 03 2013]
Prison officer president warning to Minister on... [Published Leinster Express - May 02 2013]
Strike threat from Prison officers [Published Leinster Express - May 02 2013]
Shatter asks judges to consider community servi... [Published Irish Independent - May 02 2013]
Minister in community orders plea [Published Irish Independent - May 02 2013]
Minister Shatter to honour murdered Portlaoise ... [Published Leinster Express - May 02 2013]
Shatter frustrated at judges’ imposing short j... [Published Irish Times - May 02 2013]
Justice Minister: Judges sending too many peopl... [Published Roscommon Herald - May 02 2013]
Prison Officers decide whether they should ball... [Published Newstalk - May 02 2013]
Prison officers threaten industrial action over... [Published Roscommon Herald - May 02 2013]
POA plans strike ballot if further cuts imposed [Published RTE Online - May 02 2013]
Prison Officers Association will ‘do what needs... [Published Irish Times - May 02 2013]
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