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People want offenders to make amends, poll reveals

ICM survey results offer massive vote of support for community payback and restorative justice.

The results of an ICM telephone poll of 1,000 members of the public, conducted one month after the riots in England, show overwhelming popular support for constructive ways in which offenders can make amends to victims for the harm they have caused.

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Prisoners voting update

25/01/2011 13:00:00

Instead of listening to MPs who would rather stick with the punishment of civic death, dating back to the Forfeiture Act of 1870, than comply with the 2005 judgment of the European Court of Human Rights, the coalition government should listen to the advice of experienced prison governors and officials, past and present bishops to prisons and chief inspectors, electoral commissioners, legal and constitutional experts and most other European governments.

Prison Reform Trust comment on prison closures

13/01/2011 12:39:00

Overuse of custody over the last fifteen years has been costly and damaging. As it reviews the prison estate, the Ministry of Justice must now make sure that there are effective alternatives to custody and opportunities for diversion into treatment that command the confidence of the courts and the public.

Open prisons are not to blame for Ford riot

05/01/2011 09:16:00

The Ford riot shows warnings over alcohol have been ignored – but we should not question open prisons' role in rehabilitation

PRT comment on Ford prison disturbance

02/01/2011 20:32:00

Commenting on the disturbance at HMP Ford, Prison Reform Trust director Juliet Lyon said: "No one wins from a prison disturbance. It endangers prisoners and staff, worries families and ends in a high cost the Prison Service can ill afford."

Prisoners serving less than four years to get vote

20/12/2010 13:45:00

Commenting on the government's proposals for all offenders sentenced to four years or more to be automatically barred from registering to vote, Juliet Lyon said:

Enfranchising prisoners serving sentences of under four years is an important step in the right direction. However, it does not appear to meet the requirements of European Court judgments which state that the vast majority of prisoners should be able to vote.

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Children with learning disabilities and other impairments are more likely to go to prison than other young people because the youth justice system is failing to recognise their needs, according to a major survey of youth offending team (YOT) staff.