PRT comment: NAO report on mental health in prisons
Commenting on today’s National Audit Office report on mental health in prisons, Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust said:
“This is a familiar tale of admirable policy objectives not being delivered on the ground. There is a ray of hope in the successful rollout of liaison and diversion schemes in courts and police stations that spot some of the people who are most vulnerable. But this report makes horribly clear that our prisons are holding very many people who will suffer disproportionate and unnecessary harm because of the prison environment. It is futile to expect to improve their situation while prisons are overcrowded and thousands of people are spending a few weeks inside each year simply because there is inadequate community provision. The government must grip the issue of who goes to prison so that the system can care properly for the minority who really need to be there.”
Read Peter’s blog for Huffington Post by clicking here.
You can download a copy of the full report by clicking here.
Commenting on today’s National Audit Office report on mental health in prisons, Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust said:
“This is a familiar tale of admirable policy objectives not being delivered on the ground. There is a ray of hope in the successful rollout of liaison and diversion schemes in courts and police stations that spot some of the people who are most vulnerable. But this report makes horribly clear that our prisons are holding very many people who will suffer disproportionate and unnecessary harm because of the prison environment. It is futile to expect to improve their situation while prisons are overcrowded and thousands of people are spending a few weeks inside each year simply because there is inadequate community provision. The government must grip the issue of who goes to prison so that the system can care properly for the minority who really need to be there.”
Read Peter’s blog for Huffington Post by clicking here.
You can download a copy of the full report by clicking here.
