A special edition with a focus on the Mind in Prison.
Articles in this edition include Jamie Bennett, the Head of the Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) Unit at HMP Whitemoor, on the role of prison officers in the unit, and Dick Frak, Director of Service Development at Rethinking Severe Mental Illness, on mental illness and imprisonment.
This edition also includes a speech delivered at No 10 by Martin Narey, Director General of HM Prison Service, and an article on drugs policy by Mark Leech, Chief Executive of UNLOCK.
In this edition:
- Comment
- Asperger Syndrome: One Prisoner's Experience, by Ross Gordon
- Mental Health and Prison: Responding to Need, by Nick O’Shea
- The Role of Prison Officers on the Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder Unit at HMP Whitemoor, by Jamie Bennett
- The Prisoner Cohort Study - A research study on personality disordered offenders, by Matt Erikson
- Mental Illness and Imprisonment, by Dick Frak
- Working Positively and Productively in a DSPD Unit, by Len Bowers & Paola Carr-Walker
- Staff Development in Personality Disorder Services, by Les Storey & Colin Dale
- Investing for the Future: Education for nurses who work with mental health problems in prison, by Steve Hemingway & Anne Cook
- Prisoner to Listener, by Niel Swann
- Speech at No 10 Downing Street, by Martin Narey
- The Experiment, by Steve Taylor
- Drugs Policy: Gone to Pot?, by Mark Leech
- An End To Prisoners, by Stephen Pryor
- Prisoners as Citizens, by David Faulkner
- Lifers Who Maintain Their Innocence, by Nigel Newcomen
Book reviews
- Self Esteem – The Costs and Causes of low self-worth, by Nicholas Emler (reviewed by Andrea Haith)
- Making Good, by Shadd Maruna (reviewed by Ruth Wyner)
- Does it really have to be like this? - Review of BBC’s ‘The Experiment’, by Jamie Bennett
