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Pushing up prison numbers isn’t the answer
Reform of our justice system is at the centre of parliamentary debate. Today sees the second reading...
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Coalition can break from failed justice policy
Abandoning the obsessive concentration on increasing prison capacity will allow the government to re...
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Blog: This is not justice
Vulnerable people with learning difficulties who commit crime can end up lost in a system they do no...
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Dano Sonnex – is the criminal justice system fit for purpose?
Former chief probation officer and PRT’s current deputy director, Geoff Dobson reflects on the les...
