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HIGH LEVELS OF IMPRISONMENT DAMAGE HEALTH AND BREACH DISABILITY AND EQUALITIES LEGISLATION

The failure to take a cross-governmental approach to being tough on the causes of crime has widened health and social inequalities. Facts and figures published today in the Prison Reform Trust's latest Bromley Briefing Prison Factfile reveal that billions of public money is being wasted on a prison system which cannot reasonably cope with the burden of public health demands.

It warns that a continued absence of leadership from the government on penal policy and its failure to join up health, social and justice policy may mean that long-awaited reform to the prison system will be driven by existing disability, equality and corporate manslaughter legislation and by tough spending constraints.  

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THREE QUARTERS OF CHILDREN REMANDED INTO CUSTODY ARE WRONGLY JAILED
Serious, widespread an fundamental failings in the youth justice system mean that up to three quarters of children locked up on remand are wrongly or unnecessarily jailed, according to new research published by the Prison Reform Trust.

You can download the report Children: Innocent Until Proven Guilty here 
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Doing Time

A report published by the Prison Reform Trust provides evidence that older prisoners face isolation and discrimination because the government is failing to meet their specialist health, social and resettlement needs, with some wheelchair-bound prisoners unable to join in day-to-day prison activities.

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Criminal Damage - why we should lock up fewer children

The number of children sentenced to custody in England and Wales more than tripled between 1991 and 2006. We lock up more under 18 year olds proportionally than any other country in Western Europe. This new briefing, combining public opinion poll evidence and a twelve point action plan, is part of the Prison Reform Trust’s five year programme to reduce child and youth imprisonment.

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Bromley Briefings - June 2009
Based on official figures drawn from a wide range of sources, the Bromley Briefings prison fact file shows the extent and impact of the rise in the prison population in recent years. www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk photograph

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Why prisoners need the vote
Five years since the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the UK’s blanket ban on prisoners’ voting was unlawful, the government have still not acted. PRT director Juliet Lyon explains why this must change. ballot box

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WI votes to call a halt to the inappropriate imprisonment of the mentally ill
After her schizophrenic son killed himself in prison, one mother’s determination to stop other families suffering as hers has done has led to a resounding commitment from the WI to stop the cruel practice of locking up mentally ill people in bleak, overcrowded jails. It is difficult to think of anywhere more likely to make an ill person worse. medication hatch

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