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PDF 83 Mar 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Whitelaw letter to Brittan ("Prisons manpower and long term expenditure") [MT consents to substantial increase in prisons manpower despite drive to reduce civil service numbers, but emphasises need for efficiency savings elsewhere in prison service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Oct 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 minute to MT ("Prison adjudication") ["...review of the present system for dealing with offences in prison."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan letter to Whitelaw (prison education) [Committee report "...disappointing and rather unabalanced..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (prisoners in police cells) [Brittan press article] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Mar 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 letter to Brittan PS ("Scrutinies and value for money") [MT keen to maintain momentum of reform, and presses for report on efficiency in the prison service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 May 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (police investigations into corruption in the Home Office Prison Department Directorate of Industries and Farms) [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 note to MT (report on tougher regimes in detention centres) [comments on the findings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 13 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan letter to Whitelaw ("Tougher regimes in detention centres") ["...announcing an immediate programme to establish a consistent detention centre regime as a distinctive feature in the penal system and one which will command the confidence of the courts." ] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Jul 16 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Managing the Long-Term Prison System: the Report of the Control Review Committee") ["One of the most fundamental problems that any prison system has to solve is how to contain its most dangerous and difficult prisoners."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 84 Oct 31 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Prison Service industries and farms") [reforms] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 4 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan PS letter to No.10 ("Regimes in Detention Centres") ["...programme of work to establish a consistent regime for the whole detention centre system... with a view to enhancing the role of detention centres as a distinctive feature of the penal system commanding the confidence of the courts."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 23 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Younger PS letter to No.10 ("Chiswick Report") [statement to Parliament regarding report on suicide precautions in Glenochil Young Offenders Institution and Detention Centre] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Aug 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Brittan letter to Jenkin (prison accommodation) [No.10: "The Home Secretary is convinced that extra capacity is required despite the Government's concern to develop alternatives to custody and encourage the courts to use them."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Mar 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Hurd minute to MT (Prison industries) [rationalisation] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: MT letter to Prison Governors Branch (Prison Service) [funding & threat of industrial action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Hurd minute to MT ("Possible industrial action by prison officers") [government strategy outline; Hurd statement to Parliament; Policy Unit analysis] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Younger letter to Hurd (prison officers industrial action) [military assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Cabinet Office briefing for Whitelaw ("Prison officers' industrial action") [situation report & key issues for Whitelaw meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Cabinet Office record of conversation (Prison officers' industrial action) [Whitelaw, Hurd, Tom King, Lord Young, John MacGregor, Michael Havers, John Wakeham, John Stanley, William Waldegrave and others] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Prison officers' dispute") [situation report] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Home Office briefing for MT ("Prisons: Wednesday 7 May, 4.30pm") [prison officers' dispute: "For years, firm management in the prison service has been lacking..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Cabinet Office minute to MT ("Prison Officers' Dispute situation report") ["...talks to take place with the Home Office... the situation in the prisons has stabilised."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Prison Officers' Dispute") [prison riots; emergency legislation; union talks with Home Secretary; independent inquiry] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Prisons - your meeting with the Home Secretary") ["Your meeting on Wednesday 7 May could authorise progressive changes in the workings of prisons for the next twenty years, or condemn them to a continuation of the present archaic and corrupt system."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Whitelaw, Hurd, Biffen, Tom King, John MacGregor, Lord Young, Michael Havers, John Wakeham, John Stanley and others) [prison officers' dispute] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: No.10 note to MT (prison officers' dispute: PA review) [MT request for report; No.10: "Appendix 9 hints at the abuses."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Justice: Home Office letter to Prison Officers' Association (industrial dispute) [No.10: "To an inexpert eye, there are no signs of a climbdown here."] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 86 May 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Justice: HM Prison Service letter to Cabinet Office ("Prison officers' dispute") [arrangements for police assistance] [declassified Dec 2014]
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