Publication
Prison Service Journal: 256
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
A general issue covering a range of topics.
In this issue:
- Editorial Comment
- Empirical research on the impact and experience of open prisons: state of the field and future directions, by Dr Ian D. Marder, Magali Lapouge, Dr Joe Garrihy and Dr Avril M. Brandon
- The Long Shadow of the Victorian Prison, by Professor Dominique Moran, Professor Yvonne Jewkes, Dr Eleanor March and Professor Matt Houlbrook
- ‘I seriously didn’t want to walk through them gates, it was that bad’: New psychoactive substance use and prison officer well-being, by Dr Maggie Leese and Dr Victoria Bell
- The impacts of the drop in staffing provision in the transition between the youth custody estate and young adult/adult estate, by Dr Jayne Price
- Prisoners’ feedback on a formally set-up peer mentoring scheme in a prison in South East England, by Julia Telfer, Dr. Marianne Markowski, Dr. Christina Malamateniou, Susannah Duthoit and Deborah Smith
- Religion, Social media and the discourse on prisons: An analysis of the responses to the Church of Pentecost (CoP) prison project in Ghana, by Dr Charles Prempeh
- Sing Sing Prison Blues: Reflections of a New York City Street Cop turned Warden. Interview with Michael Capra, interviewed by Bryonn Bain
- Prison Governor’s Journal, by Brendan O’Friel (Reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
- Privatising justice: The security industry, war and crime control, by Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea (Reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
- Positive Growth and Redemption in Prison — Finding Light Behind Bars and Beyond, by Lila Kazemian (Reviewed by Dr David Honeywell)