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New report from Prison Reform Trust and Directors of Social Services highlights the importance of local councils championing the needs of women offenders.
Joint report from Prison Reform Trust and Women in Prison chart how the desperate lack of suitable housing for women offenders is rapidly worsening.
Prison Reform Trust report says that Older released prisoners are set up to fail and that things are getting worse since the probation reforms.
The latest edition of the Prison Reform Trust’s Bromley Briefings shows the desperate state of the prison system in revealing detail.
New Prison Reform Trust report highlights the high number of young people in custody who were in care and says some areas are effective at preventing this.
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?
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.
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.
This is a timely report that reminds us all how much families are neglected in the criminal justice system. Unlike many other countries, approbation, and even youth justice, services tend to focus on the individual offender and often view interested family members as a necessary evil rather than affected others with an important role to contribute themselves.
The Prison Reform Trust’s Bromley Briefings are the best source of up-to-date, accurate information on everything that’s going on in our prisons. If you want to know who is being imprisoned, for doing what, in what sort of conditions…
The UK has one of the largest prison populations in Western Europe and it comes at a significant economic and social cost – not least the high rates of reoffending. This is particularly true for women – with HMP Holloway and HMP Bronzefield being the largest women’s prisons in the EU.
