Girls in custody
Girls entering the secure estate are a highly vulnerable group, with high levels of trauma and poor mental health.
5th November 2021
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Girls entering the secure estate are a highly vulnerable group, with high levels of trauma and poor mental health.
Autumn 2021 stats show a fall in the number of prison recalls and the probation caseload getting back to normal again after COVID.
Safety in Custody statistics finds big rise in self-harm (8% for men, 47% for women) in second quarter of 2021.
Lived experience work in criminal justice can be safe, sustaining and inclusive AND exclusionary, shame-provoking and precarious.
Crest Advisory research find the effects of maternal imprisonment can be severe and long-lasting on children, leading to exclusion and exploitation.
Nuffield Trust finds prisoners face severe difficulties accessing hospital services, with early data from the pandemic indicating that the problem is getting worse.
Jon Collins, Chief Executive of the Prisoners’ Education Trust argues that the spending review is a must-take opportunity to roll out digital technology for education in prison.
Lucy Baldwin explores the persisting impact
of maternal imprisonment on maternal identity and role.
It’s Time is the new campaign for better mental health and wellbeing support for young people in prison from Spark Inside
Prison Reform Trust briefing gives the facts and figures about the 11,000 currently serving a sentence of 10 years or more in our prisons.
IMB annual report for 2020/21 urges joined-up working and properly staffed rehabilitation work as prisons come out of Covid ‘cold storage’
Justice Committee calls for root and branch reform of mental health in prisons.
