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20 / 03 / 19

PRT comment: National Audit Office report on transforming rehabilitation

Commenting on the National Audit Office’s report on transforming rehabilitation, Peter Daw...
20 / 03 / 19

Offensive Weapons Bill—Lords Report Stage

There is understandable public concern about the recent spate of acid attacks and rise in knife crim...
14 / 03 / 19

Access to Digital Evidence

In December 2018 HMPPS published a Policy Framework about Access to Digital Evidence—also referred...
28 / 02 / 19

Recycling Lives wins national prisoner re-integration award

Recycling Lives, a social business which enables prisoners to gain skills and qualifications to help...
26 / 02 / 19

Blog: Parole reform — more a whimper than a bang…

Prison Reform Trust Director Peter Dawson runs a critical eye over the new proposed changes to our p...
18 / 02 / 19

PRT comment: David Gauke’s speech on long term justice reform

Reacting to David Gauke’s speech at Reform this morning (18 February), Peter Dawson, director of t...
14 / 02 / 19

Amendments to adjudication procedures

From the start of February 2019, an updated instruction comes into effect which covers adjudications...
14 / 02 / 19

Women’s policy framework

In June 2018, the Ministry of Justice published their Female Offender Strategy which embraces the ca...
08 / 02 / 19

PRT comment: Children in custody HMIP report

Commenting on HM Inspectorate of Prisons’ report on Children in Custody, published today, Pete...
07 / 02 / 19

PRT comment: New CEO of Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service

Commenting on the announcement Peter Dawson, Director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “The P...
07 / 02 / 19

Times letter opposing knife crime prevention orders

The Prison Reform Trust and the Standing Committee for Youth Justice, along with a coalition of or...
01 / 02 / 19

PRT comment: Record levels of self-harm and assaults and a rise in deaths

Commenting on the Ministry of Justice’s safety in custody statistics, published today, Mark Day, H...
14 / 01 / 19

Tackling drugs in prison will take more than an X-ray machine

We know that in-prison programmes can reduce dependency, and that the most ordered prisons have the ...
21 / 12 / 18

Growing numbers of women returning to prison due to lack of support on release

The number of women recalled to prison has more than doubled since the introduction of government me...
18 / 12 / 18

UK tops European league table of numbers in indefinite detention

The UK has the highest number of life-sentenced prisoners of any country in Europe, the latest editi...
15 / 12 / 18

Prison Reform Trust calls for urgent moratorium on PAVA spray roll out

The Prison Reform Trust has called for an urgent moratorium on the planned roll out of PAVA spray to...