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Home Office minister addresses meeting on links between domestic abuse and women’s offending
Sarah Newton MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, s...
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PRT Comment: Self-harm and assaults reach another record level
Commenting on the Ministry of Justice’s safety in custody statistics published today, Mark Day...
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Prison closure confusion
Last week, the Ministry of Justice’s programme for modernising the prison estate was thrown into c...
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Invest in women’s centres to reduce offending, not prisons
The Prison Reform Trust has launched a briefing today exclusively with BBC Radio 5 Live Drive on t...
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NCW unanimously passes motion to reduce women’s imprisonment
We are delighted that the National Council of Women Great Britain (NCW) has reaffirmed their commitm...
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PRT comment: HMIP report on living conditions in prison
Commenting on today’s thematic report on living conditions in prison by HM Inspectorate of Pri...
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Peer-led information service toolkit published
Over the last 18 months Prison Reform Trust has been encouraged to discover a variety of peer led se...
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Projected rise in prison numbers means government cannot build its way out of a prisons crisis
The Prison Reform Trust has today (25 September) published its response to HM Treasury’s consultat...
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Body worn video cameras
Body Worn Video Cameras are becoming more common in prisons following a commitment by HMPPS, previou...
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Case of James Ward highlights desperate plight of thousands of IPP prisoners
Today the BBC Radio 4 Today programme covered the decision by the Parole Board to release James Ward...
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PRT comment: Lammy Review
Commenting on David Lammy’s independent review into the treatment and outcomes for black, Asia...
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Scottish Government presumption against custodial sentences of less than 12 months
Commenting on today’s (5 September) announcement that the Scottish Government will introduce a...
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Black and mixed ethnicity women more than twice as likely to face arrest
Black and mixed ethnicity women are more than twice as likely as white women in the general populati...
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Kaizen
Earlier this year, the Correctional Services Accreditation and Advisory Panel (CSAAP) recommended th...
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Assisted Prison Visits Scheme
In our column in June this year we wrote about the difficulties some people face visiting their fami...
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Government urged to “get a grip” on IPPs
The Prison Reform Trust’s Head of Policy and Communications, Mark Day, yesterday took part in a di...
