Preventing heroin overdoses on release from prison
New research on the challenges of making take home naloxone kits available to released prisoners to prevent heroin overdose deaths.
16th February 2016
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New research on the challenges of making take home naloxone kits available to released prisoners to prevent heroin overdose deaths.
New report from the Howard League for Penal Reform on the cost of prison suicide.
It’s very unusual for any Prime Minister to make a speech about prison reform, let alone a Conservative one…
Issues ranged from poor monitoring of compliance with medication and lack of encouragement to take prescribed drugs, to inappropriate care plans which were not reviewed and updated.
New Freedom of Information request shows that 48 prisoners were accidentally released in 2014/15 – including one murderer and 5 prisoners from HMP Bullingdon.
New IPPR report advocates devolving responsibility for low level offenders to local authorities and City mayors. But do we need another probation service?
We know that employment is key to desistance from crime, surely the Prison Service should be doing everything it can to help prisoners reintegrate into the community and go straight?
With the closure of some Mother and Baby Units and others under threat, the future for mothers and babies in prison is uncertain and the options for many women in prison, particularly those serving longer sentences, to keep their families together remain extremely limited.
Segregation units and close supervision centres are complex places, where some of the prison’s most challenging individuals are confined alongside some of its most vulnerable people, within a small, enclosed space.
Synthetic cannabis in prison such a major problem that inspectors recommend the Prisons Minister oversees a comprehensive response
Most commentators agree that the rise in adjudications is linked to the increasing levels of violence reported in most prisons over the last two years by the official prison inspectors.
Prisons are an emotive subject and when the spotlight is on prison reform as it is now with new Justice Secretary Michael Gove’s emerging plans, it’s invaluable to be able to check your facts.
