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PRT comment: Safety in custody statistics
Commenting on the findings of today’s (30 January) Ministry of Justice Safety in Custody statistic...
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Punitive prison policies risk repeating past mistakes
Planned government changes to sentencing will add to pressures on our overcrowded and overstretched ...
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Proposed changes to automatic release need greater public scrutiny
Measures which seek to increase the automatic release point from halfway to the two-thirds point for...
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A new year should be about new beginnings, not repeating the same mistakes of the past
At the end of a tumultuous year, PRT’s thoughts are inevitably with the people most closely affect...
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PRT statement on the London Bridge attack
Below is a statement from the director of the Prison Reform Trust Peter Dawson on the tragic events ...
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A letter to party leaders ahead of the 2019 general election
The Prison Reform Trust, along with 15 other criminal justice organisations, has co-signed a letter ...
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Families need more help to deal with the pains of IPP imprisonment
The families of people serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences are not getting en...
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New podcast shines a light on the closed world of prisons
We’re pleased to launch our new series of podcasts with Straightline and National Prison Radio. Pr...
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Blog: Telling it like it is
Prisoner Policy Network launches first report with evidence from those with lived experience of pris...
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Blog: We need hope!
In this article, originally published in Inside Time, Head of Prisoner Engagement Paula Harriot refl...
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Listening to prisoners — the launch of the prisoner policy network
New Prisoner Policy Network (PPN) launched at HMP Grendon Someone much wittier and wiser than me onc...
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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 ...
