High‑risk offenders placed in unsuitable supported living accommodation
His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 29 Mar 2017 and 15 Oct 2019.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service was found for the earlier reports.
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“Offender 3 a high risk offender should never have been referred to or admitted to supported living accommodation (upon his release from prison), the only suitable accommodation where the risks that he posed could be appropriately manged being Approved Premises.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service was found for this report.
- 2 years 7 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“Asenior NPS divisional head said that providing more Approved Premises places would potentially save lives.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:ApprovedPremises
His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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2017 → 2019Alex Malcolm2 years 7 months after John Jaundoo · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight that a lack of sufficient Approved Premises placements leads to high‑risk offenders being placed in unsuitable supported living accommodation, creating a risk of harm.
John Jaundoo · 29 Mar 2017
“Offender 3 a high risk offender should never have been referred to or admitted to supported living accommodation (upon his release from prison), the only suitable accommodation where the risks that he posed could be appropriately manged being Approved Premises.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Alex Malcolm · 15 Oct 2019
“Asenior NPS divisional head said that providing more Approved Premises places would potentially save lives.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service was found for this report.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 → 2019 | 0.74 | 0.23 | Identical · 0.90 | different |
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