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HMP Bronzefield Independent Monitoring Board Annual Report 2018–19
Commenting on the report’s findings, Jenny Earle, programme director for the Prison Reform Trustâ€...
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PRT comment: Justice Committee report on prison governance
Commenting on today’s (31 October) report on prison governance published by the House of Commons J...
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Prison Reform Trust receives National Lottery boost to improve approaches to prisoner rehabilitation
National penal reform charity, the Prison Reform Trust, has been awarded £2.6 million in Nation...
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Families struggling to share urgent safeguarding concerns with prisons
New research reveals that most prisons in England and Wales are failing in their duty to ensure that...
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Longer prison sentences may win votes but they won’t stop crime
While articles declare our prisons have gone ‘soft’, the truth is that sentencing is much, much ...
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Blog: Learning lessons from Belfast on sentencing women
Magistrates’ Association Deputy CEO and Director of Policy and Research, Dr Jo Easton has written ...
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Blog: Women prisoners are being badly let down by government reforms
Following the publication of Broken Trust, our report on the rising numbers of women recalled to cus...
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PRT comment: Welsh government blueprint for women offenders
Commenting on the publication by the Welsh Government today of a Blueprint for Women Offenders, Jenn...
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PRT comment: Presumption against prison sentences of 12 months or less
Commenting on the Scottish Parliament’s vote to extend its presumption against the use of custodia...
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Empowering women, transforming lives
PRT, in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Centre for Mental Health, brought t...
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Deputy Minister to address conference on delivering more effective responses to offending by women
Jane Hutt AM, Deputy Minister for the Welsh Government, will set out plans today (10 October) on wor...
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PRT comment: Changes to automatic release
Commenting on today’s (1 October) announcement by Robert Buckland that he will legislate to in...
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PRT comment: HMIP report on service user involvement
Commenting on the report published today (19 September) by HM Inspectorate of Probation, Service use...
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Blog: Let’s not rush to judgement
PRT Associate, Sarah Beresford has blogged about a new video resource which seeks to challenge perce...
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The Prime Minister’s announcements on prisons—the fog clears, but only a little…
Following the Prime Minister’s announcements about prisons in mid-August, we wrote three letters s...
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“My children were very frightened.”
Our Head of Prisoner Engagement, Paula Harriott spoke to Channel 5 News alongside Dr Shona Minson ab...
