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09 / 04 / 20

Prisons in England and Wales are closed to visitors

HM Prison Service has announced that prisons in England and Wales are temporarily closed to visitors...
09 / 04 / 20

PRT comment: social visits and phones

Commenting on the government’s decision to suspend social visits and increase the provision of ph...
11 / 03 / 20

Helping female ex-offenders into work

Rachel Muller-Heyndeyk has written a piece for the Raconteur about helping women back into work afte...
04 / 03 / 20

Domestic Abuse Bill reintroduced in Parliament

The reintroduction today of the Domestic Abuse Bill presents an opportunity to strengthen legal prot...
03 / 03 / 20

Charities welcome minister’s commitment to deliver emergency safeguarding hotlines

This week the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody held its Keeping Safe Conference ...
03 / 03 / 20

Women in prison: mental health and well-being—a guide for prison staff

Penal Reform International (PRI), in partnership with the Prison Reform Trust (PRT), has published a...
17 / 02 / 20

Women released from prison nearly three times less likely to be in employment on release than men

A new briefing, Working It Out, published today by the Prison Reform Trust and Working Chance, revea...
07 / 02 / 20

PRT comment: National Audit Office report on improving the prison estate

Commenting on the findings of today’s (7 February) National Audit Office report on improving the p...
04 / 02 / 20

PRT comment: Responding to the threat of terrorism

Responding to the proposed introduction of emergency legislation, Peter Dawson, director of the Pris...
30 / 01 / 20

PRT comment: Safety in custody statistics

Commenting on the findings of today’s (30 January) Ministry of Justice Safety in Custody statistic...
27 / 01 / 20

Punitive prison policies risk repeating past mistakes

Planned government changes to sentencing will add to pressures on our overcrowded and overstretched ...
22 / 01 / 20

Proposed changes to automatic release need greater public scrutiny

Measures which seek to increase the automatic release point from halfway to the two-thirds point for...
19 / 12 / 19

A new year should be about new beginnings, not repeating the same mistakes of the past

At the end of a tumultuous year, PRT’s thoughts are inevitably with the people most closely affect...
02 / 12 / 19

PRT statement on the London Bridge attack

Below is a statement from the director of the Prison Reform Trust Peter Dawson on the tragic events ...
19 / 11 / 19

A letter to party leaders ahead of the 2019 general election

The Prison Reform Trust, along with 15 other criminal justice organisations, has co-signed a letter ...
11 / 11 / 19

Families need more help to deal with the pains of IPP imprisonment

The families of people serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences are not getting en...