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27 / 01 / 11

Blog: RIP the Youth Justice Board

The YJB was created in 1998 and its demise was announced on 15th October 2010, one of many quangos t...
25 / 01 / 11

Prisoners voting update

Instead of listening to MPs who would rather stick with the punishment of civic death, dating back t...
13 / 01 / 11

Prison Reform Trust comment on prison closures

Overuse of custody over the last fifteen years has been costly and damaging. As it reviews the priso...
05 / 01 / 11

Open prisons are not to blame for Ford riot

In this article, originally published in the Guardian, PRT director Juliet Lyon argues that the rece...
02 / 01 / 11

PRT comment on Ford prison disturbance

Commenting on the disturbance at HMP Ford, Prison Reform Trust director Juliet Lyon said: “No ...
16 / 12 / 10

Writing competition 2010: lyric/rap prize winners announced

Following the successful re-launch of the Prison Reform Trust writing competition last year, this ye...
16 / 12 / 10

Justice green paper a ‘blueprint for moderate and sensible reform’

The Ministry of Justice green paper is a blueprint for moderate and sensible reform and should mark ...
07 / 12 / 10

PRT submission to Council of Europe Committee of Ministers

As many as 73,000 people were unlawfully denied the right to the vote in the UK general and local el...
07 / 12 / 10

Government says it will look “afresh” at giving prisoners the vote

The government has said it will look “afresh” at how to comply with a European judgment on givin...
07 / 12 / 10

Europe says electoral reform means prisoners too

At its meeting on 14–16 September the Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe strongly cri...
07 / 12 / 10

Blog: “Denying prisoners the vote is unlawful and uncivilised”

People are sentenced to custody to lose their liberty, not to be stripped of other fundamental human...
07 / 12 / 10

Doing Time: Good practice with older people in prison – the views of prison staff

People aged 60 and over are now the fastest growing age group in the prison estate. Good practice ex...
07 / 12 / 10

“Disappointing” progress on reducing female custody, figures reveal

Figures released by the Prison Reform Trust reveal disappointing progress in reducing the size of th...
06 / 12 / 10

The pram in the cell

Yesterday Jack Straw declared reclaiming the “unfashionable” concepts of punishment and ...
06 / 12 / 10

Justice committee condemns failure in government’s sentencing policy

In response to the publication today of the Justice select committee report ‘Towards Effective Sen...
06 / 12 / 10

Coalition can break from failed justice policy

Abandoning the obsessive concentration on increasing prison capacity will allow the government to re...