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Reducing the unnecessary imprisonment of mothers, improving the chances for their children
Over 9,000 women were received into prison last year, most of them for non-violent offences, many of...
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Reforming our prisons
As we begin Prisons Week (15–21 November) Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, has wr...
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Comment: Prison building announcement
Commenting on today’s (9 November 2015) announcement that the Ministry of Justice will build ...
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Harris Review debate on preventing deaths of young adults in custody
In July this year, the Harris Review published its report into self-inflicted deaths of 18–24 year...
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Families vital to helping vulnerable people through the justice system
Families play a key role supporting vulnerable people through the criminal justice system but are of...
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Keeping children in care out of trouble
Lord Laming chairs independent review into links between care and custody. An independent review of ...
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Transforming lives: Reducing women’s imprisonment
Too many women, many of whom are mothers, are sent to prison every year to serve short sentences for...
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Blog: Putting Prisons Right
Ahead of Michael Gove’s first speech on prisons, PRT director Juliet Lyon outlines the challen...
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PRT comment on HMCIP Annual Report 2014–15
Commenting on the HM Chief Inspector of Prisons annual report 2014-15, Juliet Lyon, Director of the ...
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Financial toll of rapidly rising numbers in prison revealed in budget week
A rapid expansion in the prison population in England and Wales over the past twenty years is placin...
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The Harris Review: deaths of young people in custody ‘a failure by the State’
Commenting on Changing Prisons, Saving Lives: Report of the Independent Review into Self-inflicted D...
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No job, no hope – a lack of employment support is undermining the rehabilitation of women offenders
Fewer than one in 10 women released from a prison sentence of under 12 months managed to secure a â€...
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Strangeways 25 years on: Lord Woolf lecture
Progress in reducing chronic levels of overcrowding and improving treatment and conditions in prison...
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Strangeways 25 years on: achieving fairness and justice in our prisons
Twenty five years after the Strangeways riot began on 1 April 1990, chronic overcrowding driven by a...
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Committee report a powerful indictment of government complacency to deteriorating prison standards
Commenting on the Justice Committee’s report on Prison: planning and policies, Juliet Lyon, Direct...
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Deaths in custody: lessons must be learned once and for all
Commenting on today’s (10 March) Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report into self-inflicted deaths...
