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Blog: Prison for old people can be double punishment
Some older people have committed serious crimes and it is important that justice is done, whether or...
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Blog: Mean and petty bans do nothing to promote prisoners’ rehabilitation
In this piece for Progress, Mark Day, head of policy and communications at the Prison Reform Trust e...
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Police, health and local services key to reducing women’s offending
Supporting women at an early stage to help them address the causes of their offending would cut crim...
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Prisons sliding towards “punishment without purpose”
Letters and phone calls from prisoners reveal that, six months on from their introduction, new priso...
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Blog: Imprisonment for public protection is a stain on our justice system
In this article for Huffington Post, PRT director Juliet Lyon argues that it is shaming to have so m...
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Manx and Welsh restorative schemes win prisoner rehabilitation award
PrisonWorks, a volunteer-led charity based in the Isle of Man prison at Jurby which provides restora...
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PRT comment on HMP Pentonville report
Commenting on HM Inspectorate of Prisons report on HMP Pentonville, Juliet Lyon, Director of the Pri...
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Comment on the Criminal Justice Joint Inspectorate report on offenders with learning disabilities
Commenting on the Criminal Justice Joint Inspectorate report, A joint inspection of the treatment of...
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Independent Taskforce calls for new cross-government strategy to divert women from crime
Effective community sentences that command the confidence of the courts should cut women’s offendi...
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Prison Reform Trust welcomes independent review into the deaths of young people in custody
Commenting on the government’s announcement today of an independent review into the deaths of yo...
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Care not Custody is a promise worth keeping
A letter from the Care not Custody Coalition published in the Guardian on Friday January 10 2014 wel...
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Bah humbug behind bars
Petty prison post ban will mean a lonelier Christmas for thousands of people in prison. For the fir...
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Prisoners voting – Scoppola case judgment
On Tuesday 22 May the European Court of Human Rights published their judgment in the case of Scoppol...
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Most prisons are overcrowded
Overcrowding and high reoffending rates are a fact of life in today’s prison system according to a...
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PRT welcomes appointment of Chris Grayling as Justice Secretary
The Prison Reform Trust has welcomed the appointment of Chris Grayling as Justice Secretary and call...
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Nearly half of all prisoners to be warehoused in 1,000 plus super sized jails
Nearly half of people in prison in England and Wales could be warehoused in 1,000-plus supersized ja...
