Tackling violent offending by women
Evaluation of the Choices, Actions, Relationships and Emotions (CARE) programme for women who have a history of violence and complex needs.
14th June 2019
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Evaluation of the Choices, Actions, Relationships and Emotions (CARE) programme for women who have a history of violence and complex needs.
Independent Monitoring Boards annual report highlights visible decline in prison safety and control and expectations of prisoners and staff.
Crest Advisory finds that 2,599 prison sentences were handed out to women for shoplifting offences in 2017.
Pippa Goodfellow examines the use of penal custody for girls in England and Wales for the Griffin Society
New Institute for Criminal Policy Research report warns of public health risks from prison overcrowding and lack of adequate healthcare
It’s a bit early for book of the year, but Mim Skinner’s “Jailbirds”: Lessons from a Women’s Prison should definitely be on your list.
Prisoner Learning Alliance assesses the progress of the reform of prison education so far.
100 poems by parents and children affected by imprisonment. Edited by Lucy Baldwin and Ben Raikes.
HMI Probation finds that CRCs are “hardly scratching the surface” in meeting the needs of the short term prisoners they supervise on release.
Chief Prison Inspector Peter Clarke questions whether HMPPS is up to the job of turning round our failing prisons.
Crest Advisory study of the impact of a presumption against custodial sentences of three months or less in Scotland.
After an 8 day delay, we finally have a new prisons and probation minister.
