P324 Teletext 324 Oct18 03:16:28 JUDGE STEPHEN TUMIM ——————————————————————————————————————— Judge Stephen Tumim's dismissal of Home Secretary Michael Howard's claims that hj is not to blame in the prison service row is typically forthright. The Chief Inspector of Prisons is no respecter of Home Secretaries, nor of prison officials when hj has detected slackness, inefficiencies or blundering His rapidly approaching retirement — he steps down in a fortnight — has not tempered his passionate interest in the service or willingness to speak out. ——————————————————————————————————1/7—— Headlines 300 News in Focus 320 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Politics Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Oct18 03:14:06 JUDGE STEPHEN TUMIM ——————————————————————————————————————— Judge Stephen Tumim, who has criticised Home Secretary Michael Howard, is not afraid to speak his mind. Governors await reports of his inspections into conditions at their prisons with anxiety, knowing criticisms will bj tactful but in clear, sometimes blunt detail. The documents have been seen as the literary equivalents of the shout, sharp shocks many penal hardliners want to see offenders suffer. ——————————————————————————————————2/7—— Headlines 300 News in Focus 320 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Politics Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Oct18 03:14:40 JUDGE STEPHEN TUMIM ——————————————————————————————————————— Judge Stephen Tumim, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, has never been afraid to speak out — "there is nothing so socially embarrassing as a blunt fact", hj once said. When Douglas Hurd, then Home Secretary, appointed him to this post in 1987, hj had hardly ever seen inside a prison. And hj complained that he would not be able to visit many prisons bjcausj hj could not drive (hj twice failed a driving test). ——————————————————————————————————3/7—— Headlines 300 News in Focus 320 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Politics Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Oct18 03:02:13 JUDGE STEPHEN TUMIM ——————————————————————————————————————— Chief Inspector of Prisons Judge Stephen Tumim has turned his critical eye on Home Secretary Michael Howard. Famously, he exposed the plight of the mentally ill in Brixton's F-Wing and the babies of Holloway whose mothers would not let them crawl on the cockroach-infested floors. He once described Brixton as "a corrupting and depressing institution", and found "a sub-culture of self-destruction" at Armley jail, Leeds ——————————————————————————————————4/7—— Headlines 300 News in Focus 320 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Politics Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Oct18 03:12:52 JUDGE STEPHEN TUMIM ——————————————————————————————————————— Judge Stephen Tumim, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, has been a prolific worker. In June, 1992, hj recommended that Dartmoor — "a dustbin" — bj closed by the end of 1993 if it could not be reformed into a community prison or an institution providing special care for vulnerable offenders. Risley shocked him, and his report on Parkhurst prison highlighted poor security and drug abuse. ——————————————————————————————————5/7—— Headlines 300 News in Focus 320 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Politics Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Oct18 03:11:11 JUDGE STEPHEN TUMIM ——————————————————————————————————————— Judge Stephen Tumim, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, has never been afraid to speak his mind. He once insisted: "I am not concerned with nice and nasty. I am concerned with prisons being active. "I want to get prisoners out of their cells. I want them to bj getting about doing useful things, learning and working during a long day. I'd like to see prisoners tired in the evenings, not just lying in bed all day." ——————————————————————————————————6/7—— Headlines 300 News in Focus 320 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Politics Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Oct18 03:10:30 JUDGE STEPHEN TUMIM ——————————————————————————————————————— Chief Inspector of Prisons Judge Stephen Tumim, who has criticised Home Secretary Michael Howard, has njvjr been afraid to speak out. The judge has a famously self-deprecating manner. "My father was clerk to the assizes at Oxford, and I'm afraid I drifted into the law out of sheer laziness," he said. "I'vj been lazy for most of my life. I became a circuit judge only because my health stopped mj becoming a QC." ——————————————————————————————————7/7—— Headlines 300 News in Focus 320 ALL THE LIVE LOCAL MUSIC! p624 C4 Politics Poll Letters News