Tags are keywords. I put tags on every post to help you find the content you want. Tags may be people (Dominic Raab, say), organisations (The Howard League, PRT), themes (women offenders, homelessness) or specific items (heroin, racial disparity, ROTL). If you’re looking to research a particular issue, they can be invaluable.
User Voice interviewed 111 people subject to the IPP sentence.
User Voice study shares the experiences of neurodivergent people in the criminal justice system.
Peer research with 1,600 people in prison reveals the fully impact of living through the pandemic inside.
User Voice report on how people in prison and on probation have experienced lockdown.
The importance of lived experience of prisoners to inform our responses to COVID-19
Laurance Curran recounts how it was only when he heard another reformed offender tell his life story that he realised he could go straight & have a better life.
Brendan Doyle talks about how the willingness of a probation leader to change policy helped him as an ex-offender develop a career helping others.
In the latest turnaround story, Richie Ellis of User Voice talks about how a conversation with a fellow lifer sent him on a positive track to help others.
Prison officers said all Debbie Cox could aspire to on release was to be a cleaner, but she founded her own business and is now a team leader for User Voice.
A report by User Voice for the NHS confirms that synthetic cannabinoid Spice is the most popular drug in prison and causes serious health & security problems. Its popularity is attributed to its “bird killing” properties.
Offenders on probation used terms such as “more stressed”, “miserable”, “deflated” to describe their probation officers after Transforming Rehabilitation was implemented.