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New facts and figures reveal many solutions to crime lie outside prison bars
Community penalties are now outperforming short prison sentences, according to statistics released t...
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PRT comment: national fall in number of child prison sentences disguises huge variation
An analysis of data on the numbers of children imprisoned from different areas shows that there is s...
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Ken Clarke and Andrew Lansley announce plans for ‘Care Not Custody’
Following a three year campaign led by the WI in partnership with the Prison Reform Trust, the healt...
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Blog: Prisoners with learning disabilities and learning difficulties
In 1999, a prison governor writing in the Prison Service Journal, said: “We… have a young offend...
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Build the Big Society behind bars, says charity
Opportunities for prisoners to take responsibility and volunteer to help others improves wellbeing a...
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Children imprisoned just for missing appointments
Too many children and teenagers are locked up, not for committing criminal or anti-social behaviour,...
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Blog: There is real scope for taking responsibility even behind bars
Mark Day, Head of Policy and Communications at the Prison Reform Trust examines government plans to ...
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Thomas Hammarberg: Prisoners should have the vote
Thomas Hammarberg, the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe, has underlined the po...
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Privatisation will not rehabilitate our prisons
Ken Clarke’s decision to award the security firm G4S the contract to run the 1,400-place Birmi...
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Private Prisons – way forward or costly mistake?
Commenting on Ken Clarke’s statement on the prisons competition, Juliet Lyon, director of the Pris...
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State must keep Care Not Custody promise
We welcome the commitment of the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, and the justice secretary, Ken Cl...
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The Justice Tests with Rt Hon Sadiq Khan MP
On the 7 March 2011, the Prison Reform Trust in partnership with the Fabian Society hosted Rt Hon Sa...
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Prisoners should get the vote
In this article for politics.co.uk, Prison Reform Trust director Juliet Lyon explains why prisoners ...
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Prisoners should get the vote
In this article, originally published on politics.co.uk, PRT Director Juliet Lyon outlines why priso...
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People in prison are citizens, says Archbishop ahead of prisoners voting debate
The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has spoken of the importance of regarding people in p...
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Prisoners serving less than four years to get vote
Commenting on the government’s proposals for all offenders sentenced to four years or mor...
