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The Prison Reform Trust maintains a high public profile for prison reform. We work with national, regional and local press and broadcast media, as well as specialist publications to advocate on behalf of people in prison and improve public understanding.

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08 / 07 / 20

PRT comment: Further reforms to probation

Commenting on the announcement by Robert Buckland that probation services will return to public cont...
08 / 07 / 20

PRT comment: Taylor review of the use of pain-inducing techniques in the secure estate for children

Commenting on the proposals in Charlie Taylor’s review of the use of pain-inducing techniques duri...
29 / 06 / 20

PRT comment: Prison building

Commenting on the re-announcement that four new prisons are to be built in the next six years, Peter...
29 / 06 / 20

PRT comment: HMIP report on men’s open prisons during Covid-19 period

Commenting on the findings of today’s report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Peter Dawson, director...
17 / 06 / 20

PAVA spray – letter from EQUAL to Lucy Frazer

EQUAL—a National Independent Advisory Group that works collaboratively to address the poorer outco...
16 / 06 / 20

PRT awarded £20,000 by Uber to support its work with people in prison from BAME communities

The Prison Reform Trust is delighted to be one of two charities that Uber has chosen to support for ...
15 / 06 / 20

PRT and Howard League letter to Robert Buckland—Covid-19 and prisons: the next phase

The Prison Reform Trust and Howard League for Penal Reform have written to Secretary of State for Ju...
12 / 06 / 20

Correction to the Ministry of Justice’s racial disparity in the criminal justice system 2020 report

Following the publication of the Ministry of Justice report, Tackling racial disparity in the crimin...
12 / 06 / 20

PAVA Freedom of Information request

As part of our continuing work to scrutinise the roll out of PAVA incapacitant spray to prisons acro...
12 / 06 / 20

Race and ethnicity: a critical moment

The Prison Reform Trust has co-signed a letter to CEO of HM Prison and Probation Service, Dr Jo Farr...
10 / 06 / 20

Prison Reform Trust launches new Covid-19 prisons project (CAPPTIVE)

The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically affected the lives of prisoners, their families and those tha...
05 / 06 / 20

PRT comment: HMIP report on women’s prisons during Covid-19 period

Commenting on the findings of today’s report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons on women’s prisons du...
04 / 06 / 20

Blog: “I lost my mum twice over”

In this blog for Russell Webster, PRT Associate Sarah Beresford speaks to two children whose mother ...
03 / 06 / 20

Government response to PRT and Howard League concerns about prison lockdown measures

Last month the Prison Reform Trust and Howard League for Penal Reform wrote to the Secretary of Stat...
03 / 06 / 20

PRT comment: Government plans to ease prison restrictions in response to Covid-19

Commenting on the publication of guidance outlining how the government plans to ease coronavirus-rel...
01 / 06 / 20

Blog: A place to go like this

Katy Swaine Williams, Senior Programme Manger for the Transforming Lives programme, and Senior Resea...