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30 / 06 / 16

Proposals for Holloway women’s centre

Today the Prison Reform Trust publishes a proposal for the establishment of a women’s centre on t...
22 / 06 / 16

Rising self-harm rates show growing despair amongst IPP prisoners still stuck behind bars

People serving an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) have one of the highest rates o...
20 / 06 / 16

Making a complaint in prison

The complaints system within prisons is the main recourse you have for raising and resolving treatme...
13 / 06 / 16

Children and Social Work Bill briefing

The Prison Reform Trust has prepared a briefing for the House of Lords second reading of the Childr...
09 / 06 / 16

Property

Our Advice and Information service often receives enquiries about loss or damage of prisoners’ pro...
09 / 06 / 16

Enquiries from women in prison

Our advice and information service receives over 6,000 contacts a year from people with a variety of...
09 / 06 / 16

Time out of cell

Michael Gove, in his evidence to the House of Commons justice select committee in March, stated that...
09 / 06 / 16

Emergency response

I recently had the pleasure of meeting with groups of older male prisoners to discuss the matters th...
09 / 06 / 16

Post prison supervision

This February it will have been a year since the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (ORA) introdu...
30 / 05 / 16

Tackling the legacy of the IPP

This morning BBC Radio 4’s Today programme examined the enduring legacy of the Indeterminate Sente...
23 / 05 / 16

Too many children in care ending up behind bars

Up to half of all children in custody have been in care at some point. This is a tragic waste of you...
18 / 05 / 16

PRT comment: Prisons Bill in Queen’s speech

Commenting on today’s announcement of a Prisons Bill in the Queen’s Speech, Juliet Lyon directo...
13 / 05 / 16

Prison Reform Trust comment on Justice Committee’s report on prison safety

Commenting on the Justice Committee’s report Peter Dawson, deputy director of the Prison Refor...
11 / 05 / 16

Blog: Michael Gove needs to make rehabilitation easier to stop prisoners going back to jail

Following the publication of a joint briefing by the Prison Reform Trust and Clinks, PRT’s head of...
12 / 04 / 16

Prison Reform Trust comment on HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Commenting on today’s HM Inspectorate of Prisons report of HMP Wormwood Scrubs, Juliet Lyon, d...
31 / 03 / 16

George Osborne’s budget and the start of devolution for prisons

In his budget George Osborne announce a potential devolution of criminal justice commissioning to Gr...