Unlocked Graduates on the prison wing
Unlocked Graduates: We wanted the prison officer role to have a similar status to other challenging public service positions such as teaching.”
15th December 2017
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Unlocked Graduates: We wanted the prison officer role to have a similar status to other challenging public service positions such as teaching.”
Many women in prison have been victims of much more serious offences than the ones they are
accused of. Domestic abuse often drives offending.
Roland Karthaus says consultation with prisoners & staff is key to design a prison which promotes wellbeing and desistance, rather than actively hindering them.
The MoJ has published a compendium of all the data it collects regarding nine protected characteristics including age, gender, ethnicity & sexuality.
Prison Reform Trust active citizen forums enable prisoners to come up with solutions to the problems which bother them most.
Beyond Youth Custody argues for a theory of change for young people leaving custody which prioritises young people as the agents of their own change.
Annual inspectors’ report reveals children in custody are locked up for too long, often feel unsafe and are frequently victimised.
We spent £3billion on imprisonment in England and Wales last year. Government accounts also show the wide variation in costs between individual prisons.
Howard League/Community report finds that prison officers are under-valued and under-paid and the profession is at breaking point.
Why have community sentences fallen sharply (by 24%) in England and Wales over the last decade but increased by 18% in Scotland?
Finding Rhythms explains the way they work with prisoners to help them create and record original music.
Latest (October 2017) prison safety figures continue to shock with the highest recorded levels of self-harm and assaults ever recorded.
