TITAN PRISONS: A GIGANTIC MISTAKE
Building US style huge Titan prisons will do little, or nothing, to cut crime and instead destabilise the criminal justice system for years to come by bringing about future overcrowding crises and higher reoffending rates. In a report published today at the end of the public consultation period on Titan prisons, the Prison Reform Trust reveals that the government has no proper evidence or adequate funding for its desperate plan to build giant prisons. It points out that it is not too late to avoid a costly and damaging mistake by investing in more effective measures instead.
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PRT job vacancies:
- Office manager / PA to the director
- Finance & development officer
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Doing Time
A report published by the Prison Reform Trust provides evidence that older prisoners face isolation and discrimination because the government is failing to meet their specialist health, social and resettlement needs, with some wheelchair-bound prisoners unable to join in day-to-day prison activities.
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Criminal Damage - why we should lock up fewer children
The number of children sentenced to custody in England and Wales more than tripled between 1991 and 2006. We lock up more under 18 year olds proportionally than any other country in Western Europe.
This new briefing, combining public opinion poll evidence and a twelve point action plan, is part of the Prison Reform Trust’s five year programme to reduce child and youth imprisonment.
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Bromley Briefings fact file - June 2008
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The latest facts and figures on the state of our prisons and the state of people in them.
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WI votes to call a halt to the inappropriate imprisonment of the mentally ill
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After her schizophrenic son killed himself in prison, one mother’s determination to stop other families suffering as hers has done has led to a resounding commitment from the WI to stop the cruel practice of locking up mentally ill people in bleak, overcrowded jails. It is difficult to think of anywhere more likely to make an ill person worse.
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Indefinitely Maybe: how the indeterminate sentence for public protection is unjust and unsustainable
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Originally intended for a small number of dangerous offenders, the indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP) is increasingly used by sentencers so that there are now almost 3,000 people serving these new life sentences; some for relatively minor offences. The briefing Indefinitely Maybe?, details the careless framing of the sentence, and the chaos it has brought to prison landings and to people's lives.
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