Rejected petition HMP Northumberland - Request that Sodexo's contract be terminated

Privatised in 2013 and now run by the French company Sodexo; housing up to 1348 male inmates, there has been major lapses in security, staff struggling to cope and inmates high on drugs!

Request that the Government revoke Sodexo's contract and take back control of HMP Northumberland.

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BBC's Panorama programme recently exposed the chaos that is HMP Northumberland!

Below are various local links to support these claims:-

http://www.acklingtonparish.org.uk/prisonnews.htm

Northumberland Gazette - https://goo.gl/zfP0Br & https://goo.gl/4j07Dh

The Sun - https://goo.gl/7XBjN7

The Chronicle - https://goo.gl/ZV3aVQ

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/185219

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Date submitted 15 February 2017
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