POA (trade union)
[3] After the editorship was taken over by E. R. Ramsey (Hubert Witchard) in 1915 and a more radical tone was adopted, this led in 1916 to the formation of the Prison Officers' Federation, which affiliated to the Labour Party in the same year.[3][4] By July 1915, around 500 out of a total of 4000 staff had joined the union, but many became disillusioned and left after the POF failed to win a petition for a war time bonus for prison officers.The central board members then pushed to be treated as civil servants and for an extension of the system of Whitley Councils in that sector to prisons.[12] The abolition of the death penalty also led to introduction into the prison system of large numbers of decade-spanning sentences for convicted serious offenders.Thirdly, action which directly with the prison regime, including bans on visits, education classes, letters, bathing, laundry, and association.In January 2008, the Home Secretary announced that the government planned to reintroduce powers to ban strikes by Prison Officers in England and Wales.