The Prisons League Table: Performance against Key Performance Indicators 1999-2000
The Prisons League Table: Performance against Key Performance Indicators 2000-2001
Key Performance Indicators are used by the Prison Service to measure its successes and failures. Based on official statistics, these two papers reveal the best and worst jails when assessed on these criteria.         

Race Equality in Prisons: The Role of the Race Relations Liaison Officer This paper examines the work that the Prison Service is doing to promote equality of opportunity and good race relations. The report pinpoints the main difficulty facing the Service: that of translating policies into effective actions.       1997

The Rising Toll of Prison Suicide
The number of self-inflicted deaths has tripled over the past decade, and there is now on average one prison suicide every five days. This report reveals that suicides are more prevalent amongst young prisoners, remand prisoners and those with mental health problems.              1997

Sentencing: A Geographical Lottery
The lack of consistency in sentencing at Magistrates' Courts is revealed in this paper. The chances of offenders going to prison depend far more upon the court where they are sentenced than upon the crimes of which they are accused.      1997

A System under Pressure: The Effects of Prison Overcrowding
This paper looks at prison overcrowding and the effect of it on prison conditions and regimes.            1999

ACHIEVING PRISONS (all priced £3.50)
This series of briefing papers produced between March 1997 and January 1998 highlights good practice within the prison system.

Resettlement Prisons: Fulfilling the Prison Service National Statement of Purpose
Research has shown that prisoners are nearly 50 per cent less likely to re-offend when released from a resettlement prison than from other prisons. This paper calls on the Prison Service to increase the number of these prisons and to promote the work of these jails to the general public.        1996

Lancaster Farms: Preventing the Next Victim
The motto of this Young Offenders Institution is "Preventing the Next Victim", which permeates all aspects of its work. Central to its success is a staff training package which explores ways of working with young people in custody and, in particular, stamping out bullying.         1997

Woodhill: Innovation Under Pressure
This paper highlights good practice at Woodhill, a local prison "battling against the odds" to provide a constructive and effective prison regime.    1997

Grendon and Future Therapeutic Communities in Prison
Dr Eric Cullen
Risk-taking and tolerance are the key to Britain's most successful jail. Dr Cullen argues that there is clear evidence that Grendon can change the behaviour of serious offenders while inside prison and after release.       1998