HMP Thameside - reducing gang violence
- Date
- 12 September 2017
- Location
- Thameside
- Status
- Current
- Expectation Areas
- Safety
- Security
- Prison Type
- Category B Training prison
The prison’s partnership with Catch 22 to reduce gang violence was innovative and effective.
Catch 22 workers met new arrivals to identify gang affiliations that could lead to violence. A
database of gang affiliations helped to ensure that rival gang members were kept apart. Two
groupwork programmes addressed gang-related violent behaviour.