Just Visiting? A review of the role of prison visitors’ centres

In 2002 Prison Reform Trust, working in partnership with the Federation of Prisoners’ Families Support Groups completed a research study of prison visitors’ centres funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The research, carried out by Dr Nancy Loucks, highlighted examples of good practice, looked at the funding of individual visitors’ centres, and examined why some prisons have a visitors centres and the benefits they gain from it.