All Posts
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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...
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Support for people with a learning disability or learning difficulties – December 2013
The Prison Reform Trust has been working to try and improve support for people in prison with a lear...
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Healthcare in Prisons – November 2013
In April this year, the way that healthcare in prison is run changed because the NHS was restructure...
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Life sentenced prisoners and their information needs – October 2013
Some lifers are experts in prison matters and can quote prison policy, law and rules sometimes at le...
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Double punishment – September 2013
A recent inspection report on HMP Bronzefield has highlighted the challenges that women’s prisons ...
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Resettling abroad – August 2013
We often get queries from people who would like to move abroad when they are released from prison. I...
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Who cares? We do! – July 2013
Looking after people who have additional support needs can be a challenge for prison officers. The q...
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Immigration detainees – June 2014
The Prison Reform Trust is concerned about people who stay in prison when their sentence has finishe...
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Incentives and Earned Privileges – May 2013
The Incentives and Earned Privileges system has been around since 1995. It supports an ‘exchangeâ€...
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Prison Transfer – April 2013
Prisoners may be transferred from one prison to another for a number of reasons. It can be very diff...
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Changes to the pin phone system – March 2013
Up till now, there have been two systems for allowing numbers on to a prisoners pin account – ‘c...
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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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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...
