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PRT comment: HMP Liverpool
Commenting on today’s HM Inspectorate of Prisons report on HMP Liverpool, Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “We should all be ashamed that people are treated in this way in the 21st century, whatever their crime or the charge they face. But the answer cannot be confined to a new Governor and whatever sticking […]
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New resources launched to highlight impact of maternal imprisonment on 17,000 children a year
In an innovative partnership, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Oxford U...
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PRT comment: HMP Nottingham Urgent Notification
Commenting on the decision of the Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke to issue an urgent notific...
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PRT comment: Parole Board review
Commenting on the announcement of a Parole Board review, Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform...
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PRT comment: PPO report on discrimination complaints
Commenting on the findings of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman report on discrimination complaint...
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New edition of Bromley briefings published
The latest edition of the Prison Reform Trust’s Bromley briefings prison factfile highlights in fa...
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Approved Premises Rules
In April last year we wrote an article about what it means to be referred to Approved Premises fol...
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Former prison service finance chief: prison building plans “unaffordable”
Today, on the same day that MPs will debate the government’s prison reform and safety plans, the P...
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Majority of women in prison have been victims of domestic abuse
Women in prison have often been victims of much more serious offences than those of which they have ...
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Taking responsibility behind bars
Enabling people in prison to take responsibility for day to day life behind bars encourages a greate...
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Early intervention for women in Scotland
The Prison Reform Trust has published Triage and diversion: Getting it Right 24/7, the report of a ...
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PRT comment: Prisoner voting rights
Commenting on today’s announcement by the Secretary of State for Justice extending the entitle...
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PRT comment: Research on prison suicides
Commenting on research on prison suicides published in the Lancet, Peter Dawson, director of the Pri...
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Smoke free prisons
It has been impossible to pick up a copy of Inside Time in recent months without being struck by o...
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Social Care in prison
Provisions for people in prison under The Care Act 2014 came into force in England in 2015. It made ...
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Retrospective application of sex offender notification requirements
Correspondence in the last two months of Inside Time has prompted fresh enquires about sex offende...
