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Emergency response
I recently had the pleasure of meeting with groups of older male prisoners to discuss the matters th...
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Post prison supervision
This February it will have been a year since the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (ORA) introdu...
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Blog: Michael Gove needs to make rehabilitation easier to stop prisoners going back to jail
Following the publication of a joint briefing by the Prison Reform Trust and Clinks, PRT’s head of...
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George Osborne’s budget and the start of devolution for prisons
In his budget George Osborne announce a potential devolution of criminal justice commissioning to Gr...
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Blog: In an age of austerity, we need to use prisons less
Deputy Director, Peter Dawson reflects on David Cameron’s speech on prison reform.
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Blog: Prisons – Out of Sight, Out of Mind
In this article for The Huffington Post, PRT director Juliet Lyon highlights the rapid deterioration...
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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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ROTL update – September 2014
Following the recent difficulties with ROTL, guidance continues to develop. Another policy has recen...
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ROTL: what’s happening? – July 2014
There have been plans to review ROTL for a while and this was happening before the recent publicity ...
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On the record – June 2014
Half of all those sentenced to custody are not registered with a GP before they go to prison. NHS En...
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Equality and human rights – May 2014
We often get contacted by people in prison who believe they are being discriminated against. This is...
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Filth, overcrowding, five suicides in one year at Wormwood Scrubs. No prisons crisis?
If the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling still needs convincing of the growing crisis in our prison s...
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Fed up with bang up – April 2014
What are the rules on time out of cell? Unfortunately, they are very limited and it is not illegal f...
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Thinking about legal action – March 2014
NOMS receives around 2000 claims from individuals a year. Most of these are about personal injury, p...
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Incentives and earned privileges update – February 2014
We are getting a lot of queries from people having difficulties because of the new IEP scheme. The P...
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On licence for a sex offence – January 2014
The Prison Reform Trust has produced a new leaflet. This is for people who are on licence for a conv...
