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29 / 07 / 15

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...
17 / 07 / 15

Blog: Putting Prisons Right

Ahead of Michael Gove’s first speech on prisons, PRT director Juliet Lyon outlines the challen...
14 / 07 / 15

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 ...
06 / 07 / 15

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...
01 / 07 / 15

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...
18 / 05 / 15

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 �...
02 / 04 / 15

Strangeways 25 years on: Lord Woolf lecture

Progress in reducing chronic levels of overcrowding and improving treatment and conditions in prison...
02 / 04 / 15

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...
18 / 03 / 15

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...
18 / 03 / 15

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...
18 / 03 / 15

Innovative charity working to prevent sex offending wins prisoner rehabilitation award

The Safer Living Foundation has won the Robin Corbett Award for Prisoner Rehabilitation 2015. This i...
18 / 03 / 15

Temporary release changes are undermining prisoners’ rehabilitation

Disproportionate restrictions on the temporary release of prisoners are undermining opportunities fo...
23 / 02 / 15

Blog: The UK should encourage prisoners to be good citizens and let them vote

Last week’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights on prisoners’ voting reinforces previou...
26 / 01 / 15

Chris Grayling’s speech on Conservative justice policy

The Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP, Secretary of State for Justice, delivered a keynote address at an even...
20 / 01 / 15

Meeting the needs of Welsh prisoners

Juliet Lyon, Director of the Prison Reform Trust, gave evidence to the House of Commons Welsh Affair...
20 / 01 / 15

Leading women’s organisation calls for UK-wide drive to reform women’s justice

Too many women in the UK are still being sent to prison instead of receiving community sanctions and...