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The UK National Preventive Mechanism works to prevent ill-treatment in detention and implement #OPCAT through independent monitoring. Learn more at https://nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/.
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · 1d
For all the UK NPM's latest updates, be sure to keep up with our LinkedIn and website:

⭐️ linkedin.com/company/uk-n...
⭐️ www.nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · 1d
For all the UK NPM's latest updates, be sure to keep up with our LinkedIn and website:

⭐️ linkedin.com/company/uk-n...
⭐️ www.nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk
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HMI Prisons @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social · 14d
HMP Leeds: critical safety concerns putting prisoners at risk.

Read the report: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmipris_repo...

And the press release: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/critica...

See the healthy prison scores:
Bar chart showing the healthy prison outcomes at HMP Leeds in 2025 compared with 2022. Safety and purposeful activity had both declined from not sufficiently good to poor; respect and preparation for release had declined from reasonably good to not sufficiently good.
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The Howard League @thehowardleague.bsky.social · 14d
At the end of September, Leeds prison had room for 641 men but was being forced to hold 1,092.

Chronic overcrowding has tragic consequences: https://howardleague.org/news/leeds-prison-report-reveals-the-tragic-consequences-of-chronic-overcrowding/
White text against a black background, reading: "If there had been 16 self-inflicted deaths in three years in any other state facility, there would be a national outcry and calls for a public inquiry. What is being done to keep people safe?" This quotation is from Andrea Coomber KC (Hon.), Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
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HMI Prisons @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social · 18d
What happens to prisoners on a Friday?

Are regimes similar to Monday to Thursday, with some access to activity, or is Friday the start of a long weekend of lock up? Sara Pennington led a team of inspectors to find out.

Read the blog: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/what-ha...
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HMI Prisons @hmiprisonsnews.bsky.social · 20d
With the publication of the ‘Just passing time’ thematic review, Chief Inspector, Charlie Taylor, outlines the problems with current work and training provision in adult prisons and his concerns that cuts will make things worse.

Read the blog: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/what-do...
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Mental Welfare Commission @mentalwelfare.bsky.social · 20d
Today we published six new reports following visits to mental health services and two prisons in Scotland.
Read more here:
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Oct 3
📢​The UKNPM Reporting Dashboard can help to quickly highlight good practice & share these examples across NPM bodies! Read how on our website:
nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/using-t...

The Dashboard is fully updated with records from September 2025: npm-reporting.powerappsportals.com
Using the Reporting Dashboard – Complaints: Good Practice in Places of Deprivation of Liberty – National Preventive Mechanism
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Oct 2
The UK NPM has released a statement on the findings made in the BBC Panorama programme, Undercover in the Police.

nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/npm-sta...

It is rare that we come across the intentional infliction of pain and suffering, as seen in this documentary.
NPM Statement following BBC Panorama: Undercover in the police – National Preventive Mechanism
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Sep 11
📝In our latest blog, NPM Chair Sherry Ralph reflects on her first year in post and celebrates the commitment and collaboration of NPM bodies. @custodyvisiting.bsky.social

Read more on our website!
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Blog: Reflections on My First Year as Chair of the UK NPM – National Preventive Mechanism
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Sep 10
ICYMI: The UK NPM has launched our Reporting Dashboard, a searchable database of all recommendations made by scrutiny bodies monitoring places of detention to prevent torture and ill-treatment in the UK.

🎞️Launch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nqy...

🌐Dashboard: npm-reporting.powerappsportals.com
Launch of the UK NPM Reporting Dashboard
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Kasey McCall-Smith @kmccallsmith.bsky.social · Aug 11
Our #EnvironmentalConditionsofDetention project (@ecd-rights.bsky.social) is working to pull together as much learning as possible on these conditions. The aim is to guard against all forms of #torture. @uknpm.bsky.social
Read our recent practice notes:
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Project Practice Notes – Environmental Conditions of Detention
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Aug 5
Read the Association for the Prevention of Torture's latest blog, featuring the UK NPM's own Sam Gluckstein! Sam discusses the UK NPM's ground-breaking new Reporting Dashboard, which launches in 2 weeks! Visit our website to register your attendance for the launch event.

www.apt.ch/news/data-ac...
From Data to Action: How the UK NPM’s New Dashboard Aims to Transform Detention Oversight | APT
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jul 18
Find out more and register here:

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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jul 18
Join us on Wednesday 20 August for the international launch of a brand-new dashboard. For the first time, this new tool brings together and codifies all those findings, offering public access to the collective insight of more than 3,500 monitors working across the UK’s places of detention.
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jul 18
They ensure that minimum standards are upheld and make recommendations to improve treatment and conditions. These 3,500 people, across 21 independent NPM bodies, generate over 5,000 recommendations for detention settings across the UK every year.
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jul 18
Across the UK, 3,500 NPM inspectors, monitors, and visitors make a difference in their communities by entering places of detention that usually unseen by the public – prisons, police custody, court custody, secure children’s care, or health and social care settings.
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jul 18
- promote humane conditions of imprisonment
- raise awareness about prisoners being a continuous part of society
- to value the work of prison staff as a social service of particular importance.

www.un.org/en/events/ma...
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jul 18
The Nelson Mandela Rules, or the revised United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, were unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2015, when the scope of Nelson Mandela International Day was extended to:
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jul 18
18 July, Nelson Mandela’s birthday, was declared an International Day in 2009, which everyone is invited to mark by making a difference in their communities.
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jun 26
Today is the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

In this month’s blog, the UK NPM details what constitutes torture, and what is being done in the UK and around the world to prevent it.

Find out more: nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/blog-in...

#humanrights #OPCAT
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jun 20
We look forward to sharing our findings and driving better treatment for people deprived of their liberty in the UK!

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NPM Business Plan 2025-2026 – National Preventive Mechanism
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jun 20
Exciting news! In April, UK NPM bodies agreed to a bold new Business Plan. Building on strong achievements over 2023-25, this year we are focusing on person-centred approaches and working closely with all 21 UK NPM bodies to drive meaningful change.
NPM Business Plan 2025-2026 – National Preventive Mechanism
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jun 6
Head of the UK NPM Sam Gluckstein sends thanks from Strasbourg to all the hundreds of volunteers among the NPM's 3,500 visitors, monitors and inspectors.

Making sure he is heard over the traffic, a happy Volunteers Week from Sam and all of us at the NPM!
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jun 4
We are grateful to all those who have engaged with our recently launched Preventive Guidance. nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/blog-pr...
We look forward to continuing to support volunteers in the coming year through additional resources and programmes which will be released soon!
Blog: Preventing ill treatment in detention – practical suggestions for monitors and managers – National Preventive Mechanism
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UK National Preventive Mechanism @uknpm.bsky.social · Jun 4
To all the volunteers supporting the UK NPM’s preventive mandate: Thank you! Your work is crucial to ensuring people deprived of their liberty are treated with dignity and that their rights are respected.
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