This bumper edition of the Prison Service Journal is devoted entirely to the debate about the implementation of the ‘Fresh Start’ initiative . This initiative aimed to reform the Prison Service by introducing new staffing arrangements, shift systems, and management structures to maximise efficiency.
The edition includes articles analysing the implementation of Fresh Start, its impact on prison regimes, and the challenges faced.
In this edition:
- Comment
- A View From One of the Architects, by Eric Caines
- A View From The Director of Personnel and Finance, by Joe Pilling
- Initial Thinking on the Role of the Governor under Fresh Start, by Andy Barclay
- “A little touch of Harry in the night”, by Trevor J. Gadd
- Strangeways makes a Fresh Start, by F.B. O'Friel
- Training for Governing, by Derek Williamson
- The Housewife’s Choice, by Ray Mitchell
- Vox Populi, by Martin Mogg
- But does it work? By Tony Hazel
- The Dog Show, by G. Heywood
- What have the done to deserve this? By Ted Bloor
- Lessons from Literature, by Rick Evans and Peter Shapland
- “Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of man”, by Charles Erickson
- A Chaplaincy Perspective, by Roger Stokes
- Perceptions of the Head of Management Support Services Role at HM Prison Channings Wood, by Gerry Keen
- Theory and Practice, by Finlay Graham
- A View from the Chairman of the Prison Officers’ Association at Gloucester, by Byron Hughes
- Readers Write
- Cynics’ Corner
