PRT comment: HMP Winchester
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1y ago
“When prisoners spend all day locked in their cell, talk about rehabilitation is just pie in the sky. It’s hard to imagine a bleaker assessment than when the Chief Inspector writes ‘staffing levels were not sufficient to deliver a decent regime and current recruitment did not keep pace with staff departures’. This is not about Covid and it’s not solved by building new prisons. This report shows the government urgently need to get to grips with the basics of delivering a safe and decent prison system ..read more
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PRT comment: CJJI report on Covid recovery
Prison Reform Trust
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2y ago
“In that context, the government’s insatiable appetite to have ever more people in prison is more irrational than ever. The report correctly remembers that the justice system was on its knees before the pandemic struck. What it needs now is fundamental reform, not an obsession with simply looking tougher than your political opponents.” , Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust said ..read more
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PRT comment: HMP & YOI Bronzefield
Prison Reform Trust
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2y ago
“Despite impressive work in some areas, so many of the problems documented in this report are simply beyond the scope of one prison to solve. Too many women with serious mental health problems are entering prison instead of treatment and care in the community. And too many women are leaving prison without stable accommodation. The government already has a female offenders strategy which, if properly resourced and backed with a detailed plan for implementation, would go some way to fixing these problems. Vulnerable women in prison need more than warm words from ministers. They need th ..read more
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New figures reveal exodus of prison staff
Prison Reform Trust
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2y ago
The prison service is struggling to retain the new prison officers it is recruiting, raising questions over its ability to run a safe and purposeful regime whilst also preparing for a predicted rise in prison numbers of 20,000 by 2026 ..read more
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PRT comment: Prison education
Prison Reform Trust
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2y ago
findings of today’s (18 May) report by the House of Commons Education Committee, Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust said: “Yet again, a select committee is calling out the government’s chronic failure to deliver on its promises where prisons are concerned. The report lists six years’ worth of eloquent policies about prison education, all of them still to be implemented. “It’s time for action, not words. Informed by the realistic wisdom of over 50 responses from prisoners, the report makes many practical recommendations that the government should accept and put into effect. A def ..read more
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PRT comment: HMYOI Werrington
Prison Reform Trust
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2y ago
“The government’s provision of custody for children is in disarray. The promise of a new strategic approach, with a commitment to ‘secure schools’ made as long ago as 2016, has simply not been delivered. This latest, shocking, inspection report about an institution once held up as a model of good practice shows how urgently a coherent plan is needed. It is deeply worrying that ministers appear content with a forecast that the number of children in custody will increase, at a time when so much of the provision to hold them — public or private — is in crisis. Nothing could serve public protectio ..read more
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Blog: Review of the parole system
Prison Reform Trust
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2y ago
Click 'read more' for the full article. , Prison Reform Trust director Peter Dawson sets out why the proposed reforms to parole, , sacrifice fairness for political expediency ..read more
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PRT comment: Council of Europe annual penal statistics
Prison Reform Trust
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2y ago
“Once again, these depressing figures show how other countries find better and less wasteful ways to exact retribution when people have done wrong. The size of our prison population reflects only our dismal politics — beating crime has nothing to do with it.” Annual Penal Statistics on Prison Populations for 2021 , Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust said ..read more
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PRT comment: HMP & YOI Foston Hall
Prison Reform Trust
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2y ago
“The answers to women’s offending lie in proper treatment and support in the community and sustained investment in non-custodial alternatives. Building more women’s prison places, as the government has committed to doing, is an irrational response.” conditions at HMP & YOI Foston Hall by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, Emily Evison, women’s policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said ..read more
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Additional healthcare support needed to aid Covid-19 recovery and save lives
Prison Reform Trust
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2y ago
It also strongly advises that a thorough review of the impact of the pandemic on the mental and physical health of people in prison is conducted. to the Secretaries of State for Health and Justice, Sajid Javid and Dominic Raab—two years since the prison service introduced a full lockdown with severely restricted regimes in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. has also been sent to the respective ministers and healthcare officials in Wales ..read more
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