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UK: New chief inspector of prisons appointed

01 May 2001

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Ann Owers, director of the human rights group Justice, was appointed the new Chief Inspector of Prisons in May. Owers will succeed David Ramsbotham who retires in July after five years in the position. During this time he proved an outspoken critic of the government on issues such as overcrowding and prison conditions, calling for massive reductions in the numbers of prisoners. In June in a talk to the Prison Reform Trust, he slated the "disgraceful" treatment of young offenders and the deplorable healthcare standards in jails and criticised the cult of management that preoccupies the Prison Service. Ramsbotham's predecessor, Sir Stephen Tumim, also highlighted the appalling conditions in some of the 137 prisons in England and Wales in his reports. Owers, who was general secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants for a decade before she went to Justice in 1991, will take up her post in August.

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