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<p /> <p>No fines have been paid to the EU or any other organisation because of HM
Prison Service’s use of barbed and razor wire in the last four years. Furthermore,
there have been no infraction proceedings at the European Court of Justice and no
findings against the UK in the European Court of Human Rights about this issue in
that time period.</p><p> </p><p>The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) provides razor wire
and barbed wire as part of construction and refurbishment projects on its custodial
estate. It is deployed most often at the top of perimeter fences and fences which
form partitions within the grounds of prisons. It forms one of a number of security
measures which prevent prisoners scaling fences either to breach the perimeter or
to enter hazardous and prohibited areas of a prison</p><p> </p><p>The MoJ works with
the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) to ensure that its proposed use would
not present a health or safety hazard to prisoners, members of NOMS staff, visitors
to a prison or members of the public.</p>
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