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Maintaining innocence in prison
The challenges of maintaining innocence in prison come up time and time again though our advice and ...
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PRT comment: Prime Minister’s speech on mental health
Commenting on the Prime Minister’s speech on mental health on 9 January, Director of the Priso...
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Christmas in prison
“Christmas day in prison. There’s no right or wrong way to do it. For over 10 years I spent ...
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Prison safety and reform
The long awaited Ministry of Justice’s white paper on prison safety and reform was published in No...
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Recognising achievement
With our prisons and the people in them under severe strain, it is easy to lose sight of some of the...
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Ambulance call outs to prison
Yesterday (8 January) Director of the Prison Reform Trust, Peter Dawson took part in BBC Radio 5 Liv...
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The most overcrowded prisons twice as likely to be failing
The 30 most overcrowded prisons in England and Wales are twice as likely to be rated as failing by t...
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Lessons from abroad for justice reform
Today sees the publication of two briefings which present learning from the Winston Churchill Memori...
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Former PRT director Juliet Lyon wins life time achievement award
PRT is delighted to announce that its former director Juliet Lyon this evening received the highly p...
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PRT comment: HMP Hindley
Commenting on today’s report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Peter Dawson, director of the Pris...
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PRT comment: Lammy Review interim findings
Commenting on the publication of an open letter today (16 November) by Rt Hon. David Lammy MP to upd...
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Pressure mounts on government to act on IPPs
The Chairman of the Parole Board, the Chief Inspector of Prisons and the former Justice Secretary Mi...
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Michael Gove: What is really criminal about our justice system?
The former Secretary of State for Justice Michael Gove delivered the 15th Longford Lecture on Wednes...
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PRT comment: HMIP report on children in custody
Commenting on the HM Inspectorate of Prisons thematic report on Children in Custody 2015–16: an an...
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Deteriorating levels of safety reveal hidden emergency in the prison system
Commenting on the publication of today’s Ministry of Justice Safety in Custody statistics, Mar...
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A new dawn for prison reform?
“One tries not to be an Old Git but they don’t make it easy”. So says Alan Bennett, and readin...
