Oops: Judges' Yearbook Sent to Prison In-plant for Printing

Some print jobs just weren't meant for a prison in-plant. Over in the UK, some magistrates are a little concerned after learning that a yearbook containing their names and phone numbers was sent to a prison in-plant.

The BBC reported yesterday that the yearbook was sent for printing to HMP Standford Hill in Kent, about an hour and a half east of London. Her Majesty's Courts Service's area director has written to all magistrates to say he is "desperately sorry," the BBC reported.

All hard copies and electronic copies of the yearbook have reportedly been destroyed and security measures tightened up. A spokesperson for Her Majesty's Courts Service's noted that HMP Standford Hill is a category D prison, and the in-plant, which is supervised at all times, is staffed by prisoners assessed as low risk.

"The screening process for documents to be printed at the prison workshop has been made more secure to ensure this does not happen again," BBC reported the spokesperson as saying. HMCS officials stressed that prison workshops "provide valuable work experience and constructive activity" for prisoners as part of their rehabilitation.