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The Prison Reform Trust maintains a high public profile for prison reform. We work with national, regional and local press and broadcast media, as well as specialist publications to advocate on behalf of people in prison and improve public understanding.

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15 / 03 / 16

Women’s justice reform

The Prison Reform Trust has long called for a reduction in women’s imprisonment in the UK and a st...
02 / 03 / 16

Transforming Lives – Reducing Women’s Imprisonment 2015–2018

The Prison Reform Trust has launched a three-year drive, supported by a major grant from the Big L...
01 / 03 / 16

Charity helping young men to cook their way to a crime-free life wins rehabilitation award

London-based charity Switchback has won the Robin Corbett Award for Prisoner Rehabilitation 2016. Th...
25 / 02 / 16

James Timpson to Chair the Prison Reform Trust

Trustees and staff are delighted to announce that James Timpson OBE is to chair the Prison Reform Tr...
22 / 02 / 16

Prison Reform Trust comment on joint enterprise

Commenting on today’s judgement by the Supreme Court in the cases of R v Jogee (Appellant) Ruddock...
16 / 02 / 16

Comment: Review of sentencing mothers

Commenting on David Cameron’s call to rethink of the way the prison system in England and...
16 / 02 / 16

Blog: In an age of austerity, we need to use prisons less

Deputy Director, Peter Dawson reflects on David Cameron’s speech on prison reform.
15 / 02 / 16

Reforming women’s justice in Scotland

On Wednesday 10 February Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Michael Matheson MSP delivered a speech at a...
13 / 01 / 16

Restrictions on ROTL are “squandering the goodwill” of charities and businesses

Charities and local businesses are struggling to fill volunteer and work placements as a result of s...
12 / 01 / 16

PRT comment: Medway Secure Training Centre

Commenting on the allegations made in the BBC Panorama programme broadcast on Monday 11 January 2016...
04 / 01 / 16

Blog: Prisons – Out of Sight, Out of Mind

In this article for The Huffington Post, PRT director Juliet Lyon highlights the rapid deterioration...
23 / 12 / 15

UN General Assembly unanimously adopts Nelson Mandela rules

On 17 December, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the revised UN Standard...
17 / 12 / 15

Segregation: The prison within a prison

People held in segregation in prisons experience impoverished regimes with poor levels of purposeful...
27 / 11 / 15

Ever lengthening sentences have nearly doubled our prison population in 20 years

An explosion in the use of indeterminate sentences and the increased use of long determinate sentenc...
25 / 11 / 15

Mental health and learning disability care

Ahead of today’s (25 November) Spending Review the Care not Custody Coalition, established followi...
25 / 11 / 15

Closure of HMP Holloway—Europe’s largest women’s prison

Commenting on today’s (25 November 2015) announcement, Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform ...