Prisoner Policy Network
The Prisoner Policy Network (PPN) is a correspondence network of current/former prisoners and their families, who want to share their experiences and ideas with policymakers. PPN keeps people in prison updated about the world of criminal justice policy, and asks about the key issues that matter to them. PPN supports PRT to connect lived experience voices with prison policy development, highlighting problems and shaping ideas into workable solutions.
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Prison service is neglecting vital race and equality work
Prisoner Policy Network report calls for urgent reprioritisation of equalities and diversity work
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Paula Harriott presented with prestigious Perrie award
PRT’s head of prisoner engagement, receives prestigious award at Perrie Lectures
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Healthy relationships between staff and prisoners key to delivering government ambitions for prisons
Reforms under threat if staff only experience a way of working that rarely sees prisoners unlocked
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Consultation launched on ethnicity and prisoners’ experience
PPN seeks views from inside on how ethnicity and race affects experience of prison
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Prisons need to become places of purpose, not just punishment
A clear and shared vision of the purpose of imprisonment has been described by prisoners as “essen...
Prisoner Policy Network reports
View all- June 2024 Race to the top While race and ethnicity have long been a feature within criminal justice debate, the Black Lives Ma... Race to the top
- December 2021 It Doesn’t Have To Be Like This The Covid-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented experience of prolonged isolation to prisons with... It Doesn’t Have To Be Like This
- September 2021 CAPPTIVE: Women’s experiences of prison during the Covid-19 lockdown regime In early June 2020, PRT launched CAPPTIVE with an appeal in Inside Time and Converse—prison newspa... CAPPTIVE: Women’s experiences of prison during the Covid-19 lockdown regime
- February 2021 CAPPTIVE: Prisoners’ health during the Covid-19 pandemic CAPPTIVE, a collaborative project by the Prison Reform Trust and our Prisoner Policy Network, aims t... CAPPTIVE: Prisoners’ health during the Covid-19 pandemic
Podcast by founder of PPN network Paula Harriott
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
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The PPN was launched in July 2018 as part of the Prison Reform Trust’s strategic objective to give prisoners a stronger influence in how policy on prisons is made. It is:
- A FREE to join correspondence network of prisoners, ex-prisoners, families and supporting organisations;
- Part of the Prison Reform Trust’s engagement with prisoners.
- The way that PRT connects prisoners’ experiences to national policy development.
The Prisoner Policy Network (PPN) is a correspondence network of current/former prisoners and their families, who want to share their experiences and ideas with policymakers. PPN keeps people in prison updated about the world of criminal justice policy, and asks about the key issues that matter to them. PPN supports PRT to connect lived experience voices with prison policy development, highlighting problems and shaping ideas into workable solutions.
We ask network members to share their expertise and experience to develop practical solutions to some of the big challenges facing our prisons. It provides a space to share ideas and have them heard by a much wider audience.
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- Reforming how prisons operate is a complex task—changing the policy that directs the practice is key to achieving this.
- Prison policy is developed through research, consultations and debate but prisoners are rarely part of the process.
- The Prisoner Policy Network will be a collective voice using the Prison Reform Trust’s connections and expertise to make sure that the prisoner viewpoint—the lived expertise of imprisonment—is both heard and used in policy.
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- As an individual prisoner; by writing to us, or sending an email if you can). Please send us your name, prison number and the prison you are in, or your address if you have been released. We will take this as your formal application to join the network.
- As a member, you can tell us about your experiences, your views on prison policy, and your ideas for improving it.
- When we see the right opportunity, we will convey your thoughts to policymakers (anonymously). You can tell us if you don’t want us to do this.
- We will keep you updated via our newsletter, and we will write back to you when we can, though it may take a few weeks and we may not always be able to reply to every letter/email.
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