Building Titan prisons is a costly fast-track to a failed US penal system
Building American-style Titan prisons to warehouse thousands of prisoners could fatally undermine the justice system’s ability to cut crime by reforming offenders and instead set England and Wales on the fast-track to copying the damaging and discredited US prison system, Professor Bryan Stevenson, a leading US civil rights lawyer warned last night at the Prison Reform Trust’s annual lecture.
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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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December 2008 Bromley Briefings prison factfile
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We are paying a high price for a system in chaos. Instead of spending recklessly, the government must act authoritatively to build public and judicial confidence in a justice system in which imprisonment is used proportionately and sparingly.
The latest Bromley Briefings prison factfile sets out the state of our prisons and the people within them and the huge costs of year-on-year increases in the use imprisonment.
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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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25 Nov 2008: The Political Studies Association Recognise Anne Owers for Setting the Political Agenda
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Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said:
‘More than anyone. Anne Owers shines a light on the neglected state of our prisons and the bleak state of people in them. Her principled opposition to overuse of imprisonment and ill advised plans to build titan prisons is founded on knowledge and experience’.
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