Talk:His Majesty's Prison Service

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As far as I can tell, england still operates one prison boat, HMP The Weare, off the coast of Portland in Dorset. Any information on this?

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Full
The prisons are now full. Should this be added? Source: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23441092-details/Jack+Straw+evicts+600+prison+officers+from+their+homes...and+moves+convicts+in+to+ease+jails+crisis/article.do —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.254.75.90 (talk) 16:52, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Her Majesty vs. HM
Like a similiar debate on the HMRC, shouldn't the Prison Service article be titled HM Prison Service rather than Her Majesty's? Even their logo states HM rather than the full title. It makes sense to do this and maybe define HM in the article itself. It would put it in line with Royal Naval vessels, as they are entered in Wikipedia (quite correctly) as HMS only. Xtrememachineuk (talk) 08:15, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

shouldn't all these be Her/His majesty's it only makes sense and will future proof the documents --212.69.56.91 (talk) 07:14, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Xtrememachineuk - it should be referred to as HM Prison Service. This title could be extended to Her Majesty's Prison Service but as with HMRC and HM Treasury, this is not how it is usually referred to. It should certainly not be "His/Her Majesty's" as it is not His Majesty's Prison Service and will not be until the UK has a reigning King. 92.235.145.96 (talk) 13:53, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

The organisation is legally known as Her Majesty's Prison Service (see among others). I have changed the text in the main article to reflect this. It is not Wikipedia's role to rename organisations simply for our own convenience. Thom2002 (talk) 07:04, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Languages
Here is a listing of documentation in other languages in regards to HM Prison Service: http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/resourcecentre/publicationsdocuments/index.asp?startrow=1&cat=103&id=166,154,1,166,0,0 WhisperToMe (talk) 23:11, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

http://www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/assets/documents/10004ADFprisonsonlymap_A3.pdf is a map of prisons. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:37, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

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Article is dominated by relentless criticism
By my own calculation, the "Criticism" section makes up 58% of the words in the article. Even if the criticism section was actually balanced, this would still be unacceptable. This article needs to provide a broad overview on how English and Welsh prisons are run and it can include as part of that the issues facing them. I'm well aware that riots, overcrowding and underfunding have been an issue in the past year. Any thoughts on how these issues can be better presented? If there's no reply, I will get to work editing. Anywikiuser (talk) 15:04, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

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Minister Responsible needs to be updated
The minister responsible is no longer the person specific in the article, as of the recent government reshuffle. 5.151.133.169 (talk) 07:18, 22 November 2023 (UTC)