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Derek Lewis on the Prison Service agency (1993)

Genre

Interview

Peter Deeley interviews Chief Executive of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis about the new government agency status of the Prison Service in the UK. Topics discussed include privatisation, operational...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.2: Programme 2 of a weekly news and sports review (1986)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 2 Programme 2 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 24 October 1986. Presented by GUY HORNSBY. TRACK...

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Prison service view on prison privatisation (1993)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Derek Lewis, Director-General of the Prison Service on the government’s plans to privatise 10 percent of Britain’s prisons, how the plans are to have private contractors running the...

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Prison services under fire (1995)

Genre

Interview

Vice-Chairman of the Prison Officers Association, John Boddington, talks about the problems facing the prison service after a disturbance at Everthorpe Prison in Hull and the death of alleged serial killer...

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Derek Lewis on prison bureaucracy (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview

Interview with former Head of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis, on bureaucracy in the prison security system, following the breakout from Parkhurst and Whitemoor prisons in 1/95. Interviewer not heard.

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Brendan O’Friel on Strangeways Prison siege (1990)

Genre

Press conference

Prison governor Brendan O’Friel speaks at a press conference about the recent Strangeways Prison siege and lessons learned that will be of benefit to the prison service.

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Derek Lewis on sacking (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview

Interview with former Head of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis, who says he refused to resign, as he didn’t believe he should have been made a scapegoat, following the breakout from Parkhurst and Whitemoor...

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Hogg on end of Wandsworth dispute (1989)

Genre

Interview

Kevin Murphy interviews Home Office minister with responsibility for the Prison Service, Douglas Hogg, about the end of a dispute involving prison officers at Wandsworth prison in South London. The dispute...

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Merlyn Rees inquiry into prison service (1978)

Genre

News report; Speech

Report on Home Secretary Merlyn Rees’s planned inquiry into the prison service. Looks at how he wants fast results, the deep rooted tensions, the aspects it needs to look at and make recommendations on,...

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Alan Beith on Michael Howard (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview

Mariita Eager interviews Alan Beith MP on whether he agrees with Shadow Home Secretary Jack Straw’s assertion that Derek Lewis Head of Prison Service had been made a scapegoat by Home Secretary Michael...

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