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75% of young men (18-20) are reconvicted within two years of being released
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This page lists all the main sections of the Prison Reform Trust website. Click on a link to go to that page.
welcome to the Prison Reform Trust website
why prison reform?
improving treatment and conditions
International view: reflections on Norwegian prisons
Inside Job
Locked in a crisis
strengthening the guardhouse that guards the guards
Overcrowding
Troubled inside: mental health care in prison
promoting citizenship and human rights
Anne Frank: A History For Today
Barred from voting
St Giles Trust Peer Advice Programme
respecting diversity and the needs of minority groups
experiences of minority ethnic employees in prison
Prisoners' Pension Rights
Old inside
A fair response
No one knows - learning disability and learning difficulties in prisons
Foreign national prisoners: who, why and what to do about them?
supporting prisoners and their families
Families' rights
promoting community solutions to crime
The question all crime victims want answered – why me?
The cost of custody
Probation: 1907-2007
Our social dustbins
Prison - why should I care?
News
Media enquiries
Conditions
August 2007 - Appalling conditions at Pentonville prison
PRT annual lecture 2007 - Building Responsibility
PRT calls for public inquiry into staff brutality at Wormwood Scrubs
Deaths in custody
1 January 2008: 40% rise in apparent suicides in prison
July 2007 - Suicide link to prison overcrowding
September 2005 - Prison death toll
January 2004 - Suicide in prison statement
August 2003 - Statement on suicide at HMP Styal
January 2003 - Statement on suicide at HMP Brockhill
Disability
7 March 2007 - Lost, bullied and trapped: report on people with a learning disability in prison
15 Feb 2007 - High numbers of people with learning disabilities and difficulties held behind bars
Disabled prisoners
Drugs and Alcohol
Drug treatment and testing orders
Alcohol and re-offending - who cares?
Elderly prisoners
September 2005 - statement on the jailing of Alfred Ridley
October 2004 - Statement on Still life exhibition
August 2003 - Elderly prisoners neglected
July 2003 - Inspection report of HMP Frankland
April 2003 - Double punishment for older prisoners
Families
24 June - An investigation into the market for telephone calls from prisons
160,000 children of prisoners ignored by Government
February 2005 - Family contact work
December 2004 - Cherie Booth QC supports move to break cycle of crime
August 2004 - Scottish prisons: inmate mothers to keep children
May 2004 - Young mothers from custody to community conference
April 2004 - Prison visits fall despite record population
Month 2001 - Lauch of young parents in prison project
Foreign national prisoners
Month 2006 - response to Home Secretary's statement on foreign national prisoners deportation
November 2004 - Record numbers of foreign national prisoners
May 2004 - Foreign national prisoners neglected
Month 2001 - Asylum seekers out of prison
Healthcare
November 2005 - Prisons failing on HIV and Hepatitis C
Inspectorate reports
Chief Inspector of Prisons' annual report warns that prisons are at a crossroads
24 January 2008 - HMCIP report on Chelmsford prison
September 2006 - Pentonville prison not fit for purpose
September 2005 - Inspection report, HMP Durham (Women's unit)
August 2005 - Inspection report, HMP Norwich
July 2005 - Inspection report HMP Rye Hill
June 2005 - Inspection report, HMP Bronzefield
May 2003 - Inspection report, HMP Pentonville
February 2003 - Inspection report, HMP/YOI Ashfield
January 2003 - Inspection report, HMP Norwich
Life sentenced prisoners
March 2004 - England and Wales, Europe's lifer capital
May 2003 - Life sentences
Mental health
WI votes to call a halt to the inappropriate imprisonment of the mentally ill
November 2005 - Troubled Inside: meeting the mental health needs of men in prison
April 2004 - Mental health crisis among male prisoners
July 2003 - Troubled Inside: Responding to the mental health needs of women in prison
Month 2002 - Imprisonment of mentally ill women
Month 2001 - Young people with mental health problems in prison
New and private prisons
January 2005 - statement on the report 'Private Punishment: Who Profits?'
June 2003 - Staffing problems create unsafe private prisons
April 2003 - Moratorium on new prison building
Overcrowding
22 February 2008 - Prisons bust
Prison Service recategorises IPP prisoners
15 February 2008 - prison population hits new record high
8 February 2008 - prison population reaches another record high
Watch PRT director Juliet Lyon
PRT response to the publication of the Carter review
December 2007 - response to the publication of the Carter review
December 2007: Prison Reform Trust statement on Lord Carter's prisons review
30 March 2007 - Prison numbers reach record levels
January 2007 - Government guilty of "criminal negligence" over blocked prisons
October 2006 - Home Secretary advertises for prison ship places
October 2006 - Seven point plan to end jail overcrowding
April 2006 - Prisons face renewed crowding crisis
October 2005 - Five ways to stem prison overcrowding
September 2005 - Red alert for prisons: 20 days countdown 'til full capacity
August 2005 - Jail breaches safe limits
March 2005 - More men in prison than ever before
January 2004 - England and Wales, Western Europe's jail capital
October 2003 - Overcrowded prisons are unsafe prisons
August 2003 - Overcrowded jails aren't working
August 2003 - Use of police cells indication of prison estate in crisis
June 2003 - Prisons in crisis
June 2003 - Wandsworth prison overcrowded
May 2003 - Prison population explosion
April 2003 - Moratorium on new prison building
March 2003 - Female prison population reaches new record
February 2003 - UK highest imprisonment rate in EU
Month 2002 - Police cells used to hold prisoners
Month 2002 - HMP Ford overcrowded
Month 2002 - Overcrowding crisis
Policy
6 June 2008 - Justice Committee opens web forum on prison costs
5 June 2008: government's titans consultation - 'a gigantic and costly mistake'
1 April 2008 - Lord Chief Justice attacks politicisation of sentencing
28 March 2008 -Storing up trouble
1 Feb 2008: Court of Appeal upholds Parole Board independence decision
1 Feb 2008 - IPP judgement
Appeal court rules on IPPs
PRT responds to Ministry of Justice re-offending reduction proposals
January 2008 - criminal justice and immigration bil
Juliet Lyon giving evidence to the House of Commons Justice Committee
November 2007 - 'There when you need them most': review of pact's first night in custody services
October 2007 - mitigation: the role of personal factors in sentencing
31 July 2007 - Runaway sentence causes havoc - the indeterminate sentence for public protection
July 2007 - PRT response to Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
July 2007 - Straw to review indeterminate prison sentence
9 May 2007 - new Ministry of Justice launched
February 2007 - Making Sentencing Clearer
5 Feb 2007 - Government defeated on Corporate Manslaughter Bill exclusions
November 2006 - Queen's speech
October 17 2006 - independence of prisons inspectorate saved
October 11 2006 - Lords defeat government on prisons inspectorate
September 2005 - Buckley Hall, re-rolled as a men's prison
August 2004 - overcrowded jails
July 2004 - Government paln to cut crime
July 2003 - Prison league tables
June 2003 - Statement on 'The Decision to Imprison' report
May 2003 - Hilary Benn, Minister for Prisons, leaves post
April 2003 - budget
March 2003 - 100,000 offenders tagged
January 2003 - Crime figures
July 2002 - Crime figures
July 2002 - Prison governors lose power to extend prisoners' sentences
Month 2002 - Prisons failing Key Performance Indicators
Month 2002 - Statement on Blunkett speech
Prison staff
June 2003 - Prison staffing crisis
March 2003 - High turnover of governors and record sickness levels amongst prison officers
Race and prison
July 2003 - statement on Zahid Mubarek
Recalls to custody
May 2005 - Dramatic rise in offenders returned to prison
Remand
September 2004 - Thousands of women needlessly imprisoned
November 2003 - Thousands of innocent people jailed
September 2003 - Remand needs reform
Month 2002 - Remand prisoners denied right to prepare for trial
Resettlement
Month 2004 - Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks at the third Longford lecture
October 2003 - statement on report 'Time to learn'
July 2003 - the need to tackle re-offending by ex-prisoners
March 2003 - Probation Inspectorate report on drug treatment and testing orders
February 2003 - Juvenile re-offending significantly reduced
February 2003 - dilemmas of housing ex-prisoners
November 2002 - Wandsworth shows prisoners are an untapped resource
January 2002 - Wandsworth resettlement project
Voting/Citizenship
February 2007 - PRT response to the DCA consultation on prisoners' voting rights
December 14 2006 - Government begins consultation on prisoners' voting rights
Februry 2006 - response to DCA statement on prisoners' voting rights
October 2005 - Grand chamber judgement: men and women in prison to vote
April 2005 - Barred from voting
February 2004 - Barred from voting
January 2004 - Prisoner councils
May 2003 - Barred citizens
Month 2002 - Barred citizens
November 2002 - Wandsworth St Giles statement
Women
24 June - government announces half-hearted reforms of justice system for women
3 December 2007 - locking up women poor value for money
14 March 2007 - Women’s imprisonment: Corston review provides blueprint for reform.
March 6 2007 - Public say: stop sending women to prison
March 2006 - SmartJustice for women
September 2005 - Women abandoned in male jail
September 2004 - thousands of women needlessly imprisoned
August 2004 - Scottish Prisons: imprisoned mothers to keep children for longer
November 2003 - Urgent need for women's justice board
July 2003 - Mental illness in female prisons
February 2003 - Inspection of HMP Holloway
Month 2002 - Stop imprisoning mentally ill women
Young People
30 June: Prison Reform Trust report calls for councils to foot the bill for children in jail
22 October 2007 - Passing on the baton
8 May 2007 - government won't abolish detention in young offenders institutions
May 2007 - PRT announces a five-year strategy to reduce child and youth imprisonment in the UK
August 2005 - Rex Bloomstein's 'Kids behind bars'
December 2004 - Young parents in prison
October 2004 - reality of young people's experiences in prison
May 2004 - Young mothers from custody to community
April 2004 - Children in the prison system
February 2003 - Inspection of HMP/YOI Ashfield
February 2003 - Juvenile re-offending significantly reduced
Month 2002 - Tagging children remanded on bail
Month 2001 - Too many young people with mental health problems in prison
Events
May/June 2008: synergy theatre project -the criminal justice system in crisis
The Guardian Criminal Justice Summit - 10th March 2008
Longford Lecture
2002, Cherie Booth QC: law, victims and the vulnerable
Publications & downloads
PRT/Bromley Briefings Prison Factfile
June 2008 Bromley Briefings Prison Factfile
December 2007 Bromley Briefing prison factfile
Bromley Briefing prison factfile May 2007
November 2006 Bromley Briefings: Prison Factfile
Annual Review 2005/6
Books and Pamphlets
Asylum seekers and foreign nationals
Health
Human Rights, Policy and the Law
Mental Health
Race Relations
Treatment and conditions
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