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Staff at the Prison Reform Trust regularly write blogs and articles on prison policy and criminal justice developments, including a monthly article in the prison newspaper Inside Time.

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13 / 07 / 16

More clarity needed in joint enterprise cases

Much greater clarity and transparency are needed in the prosecution of “joint enterprise” cases,...
12 / 07 / 16

WI members welcome additional £12 million government commitment to keep its Care not Custody promise

The National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI) and the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) welcome tod...
06 / 07 / 16

Older prisoners set up to fail by lack of support on release

Older people released from prison are being set up to fail by a lack of adequate provision to meet t...
04 / 07 / 16

Peter Dawson appointed director of the Prison Reform Trust

Trustees of the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) are delighted to announce the appointment of its new direc...
30 / 06 / 16

Proposals for Holloway women’s centre

Today the Prison Reform Trust publishes a proposal for the establishment of a women’s centre on t...
22 / 06 / 16

Rising self-harm rates show growing despair amongst IPP prisoners still stuck behind bars

People serving an Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) have one of the highest rates o...
20 / 06 / 16

Making a complaint in prison

The complaints system within prisons is the main recourse you have for raising and resolving treatme...
13 / 06 / 16

Children and Social Work Bill briefing

The Prison Reform Trust has prepared a briefing for the House of Lords second reading of the Childr...
09 / 06 / 16

Property

Our Advice and Information service often receives enquiries about loss or damage of prisoners’ pro...
09 / 06 / 16

Enquiries from women in prison

Our advice and information service receives over 6,000 contacts a year from people with a variety of...
09 / 06 / 16

Time out of cell

Michael Gove, in his evidence to the House of Commons justice select committee in March, stated that...
09 / 06 / 16

Emergency response

I recently had the pleasure of meeting with groups of older male prisoners to discuss the matters th...
09 / 06 / 16

Post prison supervision

This February it will have been a year since the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 (ORA) introdu...
30 / 05 / 16

Tackling the legacy of the IPP

This morning BBC Radio 4’s Today programme examined the enduring legacy of the Indeterminate Sente...
23 / 05 / 16

Too many children in care ending up behind bars

Up to half of all children in custody have been in care at some point. This is a tragic waste of you...
18 / 05 / 16

PRT comment: Prisons Bill in Queen’s speech

Commenting on today’s announcement of a Prisons Bill in the Queen’s Speech, Juliet Lyon directo...