National Chair

Mark Fairhurst Chair of the Prison Officers Association said: "The Justice System lurches from crisis to crisis. The prison estate cannot cope with the existing prison population and now the Government has announced they can cope with unpredicted rises in the prison population without explaining where all the additional staff will come from..."

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members.

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members.

Watch National Chair Mark Fairhurst give evidence at Justice and Home Affairs Committee Tuesday 14 January 2025

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The NEC, POA members and the wider trade union movement are still grieving the loss of POA Deputy General Secretary Joe Simpson.

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The atrocities we have recently witnessed in Southport, committed by a 17-year-old ‘child’, should remind us all that – at times of despair and destruction – we need each other for support and should be united in our response.