The Prison Reform Trust welcomes the broad thrust of the justice green paper, which seeks to reserve imprisonment for those who have committed serious offences and to find more humane and effective ways of preventing and reducing crime. Reform is essential to overhaul an overcrowded, expensive and, in many ways, a counter-productive prison system.
Our summary response focuses on the proposals that are central to the remit of the Prison Reform Trust. Thereafter, a detailed response to each question in the green paper consultation is submitted.
You can download the response here