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Decision time
Justice secretary must be brave and put the lives of prisoners and staff over his backbenchers
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Blog: Renting foreign prison places—the unanswered question
Renting foreign prison places won’t solve the rapidly looming capacity crisis
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Blog: Open conditions — the importance of ongoing scrutiny
In this blog, PRT’s deputy director Mark Day analyses our latest letter from the prisons minister
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Blog: Steph’s story
How Child Impact Assessments can contribute to an effective response to primary carers in the CJS
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Blog: Open conditions — a welcome reversal, but more clarification needed
New criteria on transfers to open prisons published, but further questions for the prisons minister
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Blog: House of Lords declares open season on Raab’s open conditions criteria
In this blog, deputy director Mark Day examines what the government’s response tells us
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Blog: How three words have turned parole on its head
Latest exchanges between Dominic Raab and the Justice Committee on parole reforms published
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Blog: transfers to open conditions — how “yes” became “no”
Contrast in standards that apply to Parole Board and the officials that reject their recommendations
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Blog: Understanding recalls – time to shift the focus
Support for IPP prisoners doesn’t match up to challenge of re-establishing a normal life on release
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Parole changes – a solution in search of a problem
Sometimes it pays to ask the obvious question—'is there a problem that needs fixing?'
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Blog: Parole – who’s making the rules?
Something dramatic altered how officials considered cases for open conditions after 6 June
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Blog: Parole data — a partial apology
Ministry of Justice continues to evade questions over impact of eligibility changes for open prisons
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Parole data – a very odd response from the ministry
The last week brought both a very unusual response from the ministry and a very familiar one to our ...
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Blog: Improving support into safe accommodation for women leaving prison
In this blog, Emily Evison examines a new resource to help staff supporting women on release
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Blog: Operation Safeguard – what does it tell us?
Peter Dawson unpicks the government's decision to use 400 police cells to ease overcrowding
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Blog: Stop Press! “More jail time not a deterrent”
An unexpected source could provide “a good place for our politicians to start debate on sentencing”
