10 things I learnt about offender equalities
The MoJ has published a compendium of all the data it collects regarding nine protected characteristics including age, gender, ethnicity & sexuality.
8th December 2017
Here you can find over 750 posts tracking every major development in our prisons since 2011. You can read prison safety statistics, find out about prison reform plans and (often lack of progress), positive developments and abject failures. If you’re looking for something in particular, try the search box below.
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.
Martin Jones, Chief Exec of the Parole Board, reflects on the huge rise in the number of prisoners recalled and looks to the future of parole.
Official figures show that 21,721 people were recalled to prison in the year Apr 2016 – Mar 2017 but only 44% of them had committed a further offence.
Evaluation finds some excellent examples of drug recovery wings but the lack of support on release sabotaged the good progress made by many.
