Open Prisons: Crimes of Violence
Commons · Question 75254 · Tabled 4 Sep 2025 · Ministry of Justice · Official record
Answered 12 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what meetings her Department has had with (a) prison officers, (b) prison officers' unions and (c) other representative bodies of prison staff to discuss assaults in open prisons in the last 12 months.
Answer
Answered by Jake Richards, 12 Sep 2025
We have maintained regular and structured engagement with staff and their recognised trade union representatives on this matter. All prison governors in the open estate routinely hold local staff engagement forums, providing frontline officers with the op...