UK's New PM Vows Massive Prison Expansion in Five-Year Blitz
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has committed to constructing 14,000 new prison places by 2031, marking the nation's most ambitious incarceration infrastructure programme in over a century.
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Government Reviewing Plan to Grant MPs Access to Taiping Prison CCTV Footage
The government is examining a proposal that would permit Members of Parliament to view CCTV recordings of the Taiping Prison incident from January 2025, which resulted in one death and nearly 100 injuries.
Five Taiping Prison Officers Face Court Over Alleged Inmate Assault
Five warders from Taiping Prison will face court proceedings over their alleged involvement in an inmate assault last January that claimed one life and injured several prisoners.