ISBN: 978-1-908504-14-2
This report considers the criminal justice response towards women with learning disabilities. It examines the legislative and policy frameworks that exist to help ensure women with learning disabilities get the support they need, which, in turn, can serve to avoid contact with criminal justice services. Most importantly, the report gives a voice to women with learning disabilities, enabling them to talk about their experiences.
Out of Trouble: Making Amends: Restorative Youth Justice in Northern Ireland
Jessica Jacobson and Penelope Gibbs
2009
ISBN: 0 946209 97 9
This report, commissioned as part of PRT’s programme to reduce child and youth imprisonment in the UK (Out of Trouble), explores the experience and impact of youth conferencing in Northern Ireland and looks at the potential benefits of introducing a similar model to the youth justice system in England and Wales.
Out of Trouble: Reducing Child Imprisonment in England and Wales—Lessons from Abroad
Enver Soloman and Rob Allen
2009
ISBN: 0 946209 98 9
This report, commissioned as part of PRT’s programme to reduce child and youth imprisonment in the UK (Out of Trouble), focuses specifically on international examples of policy and practice used in countries that have relatively low numbers of children in custody or those that have been developed and implemented in countries in order to reduce child imprisonment.
PAVA spray: A Prison Reform Trust position paper
Peter Dawson
2018
This paper sets out PRT’s position on the introduction of PAVA incapacitant spray in prisons. Based on analysis of the evaluation of six-month pilots run in four prisons, the accompanying equality assessment and correspondence between the Prison Reform Trust and the Ministry of Justice, this paper examines its use, the issues at stake and the conclusions we draw about the case for proceeding with the PAVA rollout.
Prison Overcrowding: The Inside Story
Joe Levenson
2002
ISBN: 0 946209 61 8
This major report is the most comprehensive study of prison overcrowding and its effects to have been published since the Woolf report in 1991. Over 100 boards of visitors, the independent watchdogs which monitor prisons and safeguard the rights of prisoners, took part in a study carried out by the Prison Reform Trust and the National Advisory Council of Boards of Visitors. The majority of boards of visitors expressed concern at prison numbers and said that prison overcrowding was adversely affecting the prison they monitored.
Prison Rules: A Working Guide, The Millennium Edition
Nancy Loucks
2000
ISBN: 0 946209 46 4
This book is the most up-to-date and thorough guide to the rules and regulations by which our prisons are run. Totally re-written to take account of the 1999 Prison Rules and all recent developments in the courts, it is an invaluable reference work. Each prison rule is cited in full with the relevant prison service orders and prison service instructions.
Prisoners reforming prisons: Active citizens panels’ suggestions for improving their prisons
2019
This report is the second published as part of PRT’s active citizenship programme, and focuses on three important areas of prison life: safety, respectful relationships, and the responsible use of time in prison.
Private Punishment: Who Profits?
2005
A briefing paper that assesses the impact, and raises questions about the benefits of privately financed, designed, built, and operated prisons. It also examines the record of the private companies involved and considers the government’s future plans under the National Offender Management Service for extending the private sector’s role.
Public Say: Stop Locking Up So Many Women
Sinead Hanks
2007
A briefing paper examining public attitudes to offending by women.
Punishing Disadvantage: A Profile of Children in Custody
Jessica Jacobson, Bina Bhardwa, Tracy Gyateng, Gillian Hunter and Mike Hough
2010
ISBN: 0 946209 92 8
In England and Wales in 2010 there are over 2,000 children in custody at any one time. Over a quarter have not been convicted. Half of those convicted are sentenced for nonviolent crimes. Children who commit crimes are sometimes depicted as callous monsters. This study uncovers the real circumstances and backgrounds of children in custody. It analyses the nature of the crimes they have committed and assesses the disadvantages they face in terms of family and home life, mental health and education. The results mirror those of 1984, and beg the question: why are we still condemning the most socially excluded and deprived children to imprisonment?
Punishment without Purpose
2014
This report critically examines the changes to the Incentives and Earned Privileges (IEP) scheme introduces by the justice secretary Chris Grayling in 2013. In particular it criticises the changes as being broadly punitive in nature instead of endeavouring to make prisons places of fairness, decency and rehabilitation. The briefing highlights the impacts of the changes and calls for an urgent review of the new IEP scheme, with a renewed focus on ensuring effective rehabilitation and safe and decent conditions.
Recycling Offenders Through Prison
2005
A briefing paper that looks at the increase in the number of adult offenders recalled to custody.
Relative Justice: the experiences and views of family members of people with particular needs in contact with criminal justice and liaison and diversion services
Jenny Talbot, Rebecca Cheung and Sam O’Sullivan