Unsecured medication in possession
His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 5 Dec 2023 and 25 Jul 2025.
They came from 1 coroner. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
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“lack of national guidance around the operation of in possession medication in prisons either by HMPPS or NHS England”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
“we will issue a Senior Leaders Bulletin on the importance of recognising key dates and encouraging the use of local databases.”
- 1 year 8 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
“there is a lack of national policy, and local policy at HMP Guys Marsh, from a healthcare and prison perspective”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:lacknational
His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2023 → 2025Sheldon Jeans1 year 8 months after Samuel Jones · same coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight the absence of national guidance governing medication that prisoners keep in their possession, which creates a risk of stockpiling or unauthorized access.
Samuel Jones · 5 Dec 2023
“lack of national guidance around the operation of in possession medication in prisons either by HMPPS or NHS England”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Sheldon Jeans · 25 Jul 2025
“there is a lack of national policy, and local policy at HMP Guys Marsh, from a healthcare and prison perspective”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
Stated action
“we will issue a Senior Leaders Bulletin on the importance of recognising key dates and encouraging the use of local databases.”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 → 2025 | 0.77 | 0.27 | Identical · 0.90 | same |
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