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Half of all those sentenced to custody are not registered with a GP prior to being sent to prison
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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
Bromley Briefings prison factfile - more people being jailed for longer
Prisons need the glare of scrutiny
Party conferences - where do the parties stand on penal policy?
Out of Trouble: lessons from abroad
Out of Trouble: reducing child and youth imprisonment
Inside Job
Locked in a crisis
strengthening the guardhouse that guards the guards
Overcrowding
Troubled inside: mental health care in prison
International view: reflections on Norwegian prisons
promoting citizenship and human rights
PRT writing competition 2009
Anne Frank: A History For Today
Barred from voting
respecting diversity and the needs of minority groups
Prisoners with disabilties
No one knows - learning disability and learning difficulties in prisons
Doing time - older people in prison
Prisoners' Pension Rights
A fair response
Foreign national prisoners: who, why and what to do about them?
experiences of minority ethnic employees in prison
supporting prisoners and their families
Erwin James - Christmas in prison
Families' rights
promoting community solutions to crime
8 Feb 2010 - child custody figures reach decade low
15 January 2010: more prisons are not the answer
in depth - restorative justice
1 November 2009: putting victims at the heart of justice
Adulthood
star talks to SmartJustice
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
2 April 2009: prisoners to pay a fairer price for calls
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
9 Feb 2009: coroner says mentally ill prisoner's death was 'avoidable'
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
1 December 2009: vulnerable adults and children left to fend for themselves in court
6 Oct 2009 - Help needed for Welsh people with learning disabilities
24 Sept 2008: lost, bullied & trapped; people with a learning disability in Northern Irish prisons
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
18 Feb 2010: Prison Service failing to address needs of hazardous drinkers
18 Feb 2010: Prison Service failing to address needs of hazardous drinkers
Drug treatment and testing orders
Alcohol and re-offending - who cares?
Elderly prisoners
13 August 2008 - Older prisoners still face double punishment
10 July 2008 - DOING TIME: the experiences and needs of older people in prison
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
4 Mar: Inspectorates criticise “unsustainable” indeterminate sentences & call for Ministerial review
24 Feb 2010: HM Chief Inspector’s annual report ‘warning to be ignored at any government’s peril’
October 2009: ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ PRISONER SWAPS UNDERMINED DUTY OF CARE
28 May 2009: PRT response to Chief Inspector's report on HMP & YOI New Hall
20 May 2009: PRT response to HMCIP report on Parkhurst
29 Jan 2009: Chief Inspector of Prisons’ annual report – prison system living on borrowed time
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
17 November 2009 - PRT response to government's action plan on offender health
30 April 09: Bradley calls for new approach to offenders with mental illness & learning disabilities
February 4 2009: thousands of mentally ill people regularly dumped in and out of the prison system
February 4 2009: thousands of mentally ill people regularly dumped in and out of the prison system
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
Privatisation factfile November 2009
May 2009 - prison privatisation factfile
August 2009 - Prison privatisation factfile
February 2009 - Prison privatisation factfile
November 2008 - Prison privatisation factfile
July 2008 - Prison privatisation factfile
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
25 August 2009 - Top 20 most overcrowded prisons
7 August 2009: prison population hits new record high
27 April 2009: government scraps Titan prisons
24 April 2009: government retreats from Titans
8 December 2008: building Titan prisons is a costly fast-track to a failed US prison system
22 September 2008: Ofcom asks Ministry of Justice and SPS to renegotiate telephone contracts
7 August 2008 - two thirds of prisons officially overcrowded
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
9 March 2010: National Audit Office report on managing offenders on short custodial sentences
14 January 2010: unsustainable prison building is not the answer says House of Commons committee
26 june 2009: we need healthier justice
26 june 2009: Bromley Briefing Prison Factfile
26 June: high levels of imprisonment damage health and breach disability and equalities legislation
9 June 2009 - Dano Sonnex: is the criminal justice system fit for purpose?
12 May 2009: PRT comment on Prime Minister's crime & disorder speech
12 March 09: Watchdog condemns multimillion-pound government database on offenders
3 December 2008: PRT response to Queen's Speech
25 Nov 2008: The Political Studies Association Recognise Anne Owers for Setting the Political Agenda
20 November 2008: This is not justice
19 November 2008: vulnerable people face abuse and discrimination throughout justice system
27 Oct '08: "To cut crime & prevent the next victim it's what you do not what you say that counts"
15 October 2008: PRT response to Chief Inspector of Prisons' report on IPP prisoners
18 September 2008: PRT response to prison population projections
28 August 2008: Titan prisons: a gigantic mistake
11 August 2008 - The cruellest wait
22 July 2008: Justice committee condemns failure in government's sentencing policy
10 July 2008 - PRT response to government review on sentencing commission
7 July - Sentencing commission could help end prison capacity crisis and stop sentence inflation
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
3.11.09 - PRT response to Justice Select Committee's 'Role of the Prison Officer' report
24 Feb 2009: Titans and Turnkeys - prison officers reject pay and conditions package
June 2003 - Prison staffing crisis
March 2003 - High turnover of governors and record sickness levels amongst prison officers
Race and prison
16 December 2008: racism still embedded in the culture of our overcrowded jails
July 2003 - statement on Zahid Mubarek
Recalls to custody
May 2005 - Dramatic rise in offenders returned to prison
Remand
Three quarters of children remanded into custody are wrongly jailed
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
4 Sep 2008: Employment reduces the risk of re-offending by between a third and a half
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
8 March: Council of Europe urges stop-gap measures to stop UK election breaching European Convention
7 Feb 2010: General Election will breach European Convention if prisoners denied the right to vote
8 April 2009: PRT responds to publication of government's second consultation on prisoners' votes
30 March 2009: PRT complains to Council of Europe over government inaction on prisoners' votes
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
25 November 2008: national institute for criminal justice excellence could cut crime and costs
28 October 2008 - The pram in the cell
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
29 October 2009: report shows that restorative justice reduces reoffending
29 October 2009: report shows that restorative justice reduces reoffending
3 September 2009: Radical approaches to reducing the number of teenagers in custody can and do work
13 August 09 - PRT response to Justice Committee's report on the sentencing of young people under 18
5 August 2009: chief inspector warns of 'seriously unsafe' conditions at Cookham Wood
3 August 2009: government to spend £8m on youth resettlement programmes
13 July 2009: A New Start - Young Adults and the Criminal Justice System
27 April 2009: young people in custody say prison doesn’t work
5 Mar 2009: YJB figures show that prison for under-18s doesn't work
17 July 2008 - The state itself is a problem parent
15 July 2008 - Youth Action Plan should have gone further
15 July 2008 - Youth Crime Action Plan ignores the state as problem parent
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
Longford Lecture
2002, Cherie Booth QC: law, victims and the vulnerable
PRT annual lecture
PRT Annual Lecture 2008
Publications & downloads
A-Z of Titles of Books, Briefings and Reports
PRT newsletter
PRT/Bromley Briefings Prison Factfile
June 2009 - Bromley Briefings prison fact file
December 2008 - 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
Reports, Briefings and Pamphlets
Prisoners with Disabilities
Drugs and Alcohol
Asylum seekers and foreign nationals
Health
Human Rights, Policy and the Law
Mental Health
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Treatment and Conditions
Women Prisoners
The Woolf Report
Child & Young Offenders
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Briefing Papers
PRT submissions & consultation responses
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Students and Researchers
Women in Prison weblinks
Education in Prison weblinks
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Prison Report 73 - freeing the spirit: prison and the arts
Prison Report 72 - unlocking community solutions to crime
Prison Report 71 - keeping an eye on prisons
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