The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) has published an independent investigation into the death of Mr David Morgan on 30 August 2018, who was a resident at HMP/YOI Chelmsford. Our investigation found there was a comprehensive failure by prison and… Read More
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) has published a Learning Lessons Bulletin on the self-inflicted deaths of IPP prisoners. Prompted by the worrying increase in self-inflicted deaths of prisoners serving IPP sentences in 2022, the bulletin provides insight and learning… Read More
From August, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will publish summaries of anonymised complaints we have upheld or partially upheld. Ombudsman Adrian Usher introduced this to the website in order to facilitate change: “It is important that the services in our… Read More
This week the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) launched ‘The PPO – all you need to know’ online training for prison and probation staff. The training course contains basic information about the PPO, what we do, and how and why… Read More
The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) are conducting a special investigation into the disturbance which occurred at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre on 28-29 April 2023 at the request of the Director General of Immigration Enforcement at the Home Office.… Read More
From 30 May 2023, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will now include the name of the deceased (if over 18) on our fatal incident report summary tiles for reports published after this date. We will also include the date the… Read More
This article previously featured in Inside Time’s April edition. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) was first established to investigate complaints made by prisoners. Now, we also investigate complaints made by young people in detention, offenders under probation supervision and… Read More
Today, Adrian Usher has taken over from Kimberley Bingham as the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman. Adrian had an extensive career as a Senior Police Officer at the Metropolitan Police Service and was most recently a Commander for Learning and Development,… Read More
We are currently carrying out an audit of the fatal incident reports that are on our website. We are aware that there are some older reports that had not been published or are no longer showing on the website. You… Read More
This article previously featured in Inside Time in April: https://insidetime.org/naloxone-can-save-lives/ I hope that many of you will be familiar with the work the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) does to investigate your complaints. You might not know that the PPO… Read More