Health and well-being in future prisons
Latest post on RSA Future Prison report looks at one of the most challenging aspects of reform – how tackle under-pressure and fragmented health provision.
19th July 2016
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Latest post on RSA Future Prison report looks at one of the most challenging aspects of reform – how tackle under-pressure and fragmented health provision.
A short profile of the first ever woman Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Liz Truss.
Reports from Clinks and User Voice on the wide range of work done by volunteers in our prisons and the benefits for volunteers and prisoners.
Latest post on the RSA FuturePrison project sets out key ways in which the quality of education and work in prisons could be substantially improved.
Latest blog post on the RSA Future Prisons report which looks at the key issues of leadership, governor automony and devolution as drivers of penal reform.
The latest edition of the Prison Reform Trust’s Bromley Briefings shows the desperate state of the prison system in revealing detail.
Latest post on RSA’s blueprint for the Future Prison explores the key concepts of risk and rehabilitation and why they are too often considered to be opposites.
New Howard League report reveals that the use of restraint and solitary confinement for children in custody have worsened over the last decade.
New RSA project “the Future Prison” seeks to develop a blueprint for a new prison system which has rehabilitation at its heart.
New House of Commons Justice Committee reports questions proposed changes to early guilty plea guidelines, saying it could increase prison population by 4000+
The second annual Global Prison Trends publication from Penal Reform International provides a fascinating insight into the use of incarceration across the world
Not only did prison exacerbate existing problems because they were not appropriately addressed within the prison system, but imprisonment made many prisoners feel powerless to deal with issues such as their children’s wellbeing.
