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Taking responsibility behind bars
Enabling people in prison to take responsibility for day to day life behind bars encourages a greate...
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Early intervention for women in Scotland
The Prison Reform Trust has published Triage and diversion: Getting it Right 24/7, the report of a ...
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PRT comment: Prisoner voting rights
Commenting on today’s announcement by the Secretary of State for Justice extending the entitle...
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PRT comment: Research on prison suicides
Commenting on research on prison suicides published in the Lancet, Peter Dawson, director of the Pri...
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Smoke free prisons
It has been impossible to pick up a copy of Inside Time in recent months without being struck by o...
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Social Care in prison
Provisions for people in prison under The Care Act 2014 came into force in England in 2015. It made ...
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Retrospective application of sex offender notification requirements
Correspondence in the last two months of Inside Time has prompted fresh enquires about sex offende...
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Home Office minister addresses meeting on links between domestic abuse and women’s offending
Sarah Newton MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, s...
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PRT Comment: Self-harm and assaults reach another record level
Commenting on the Ministry of Justice’s safety in custody statistics published today, Mark Day...
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Prison closure confusion
Last week, the Ministry of Justice’s programme for modernising the prison estate was thrown into c...
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Invest in women’s centres to reduce offending, not prisons
The Prison Reform Trust has launched a briefing today exclusively with BBC Radio 5 Live Drive on t...
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NCW unanimously passes motion to reduce women’s imprisonment
We are delighted that the National Council of Women Great Britain (NCW) has reaffirmed their commitm...
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PRT comment: HMIP report on living conditions in prison
Commenting on today’s thematic report on living conditions in prison by HM Inspectorate of Pri...
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Peer-led information service toolkit published
Over the last 18 months Prison Reform Trust has been encouraged to discover a variety of peer led se...
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Projected rise in prison numbers means government cannot build its way out of a prisons crisis
The Prison Reform Trust has today (25 September) published its response to HM Treasury’s consultat...
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Body worn video cameras
Body Worn Video Cameras are becoming more common in prisons following a commitment by HMPPS, previou...