Prison Service Journal: 191

This edition of Prison Service Journal takes the issue of race as its focal point and has been co-edited with members of the National Offender Management Service’s Equalities Group, Matt Wotton and Claire Cooper.

The aim of these themed articles is to explore the issue of race in prisons with a focus on analysis and discussion but also on action and the shaping of practice.

In this edition:

• Editorial comment
• Legitimacy and Procedural Justice in Prisons, by Jonathan Jackson, Tom R. Tyler, Ben Bradford, Dominic Taylor and Mike Shiner
• Equality in the Prison Service – a lot done, a lot still to do, by Claire Cooper
• No One Left to Blame?, by Matt Wotton
• Seeing the wood for the trees, by Chris Barnett-Page
• Structured Communications in Prison: a project to achieve more consistent performance and fairer outcomes for staff and prisoners, by Dominic Taylor
• Equality Progress? – Slow, but Sure, by Richie Dell
• ‘Why do prisoners have rights? The lessons of our history.’ Eleanor Rathbone Lecture Series, by Baroness Vivien Stern
• Interview: Sir Alan Beith, by Jamie Bennett

Book reviews:

• The Excellent Mrs Fry, by Anne Isba (reviewed by Martin Kettle)
• Fifty year stretch: Prisons and imprisonment 1980-2020, by Stephen Shaw (reviewed by Jamie Bennett)
• The lost British serial killer: Closing the case on Peter Tobin and Bible John, by David Wilson and Paul Harrison (reviewed by Jamie Bennett)
• Criminal Justice: Local and Global, by Deborah Drake, John Muncie and Louise Westmarland (Eds) (reviewed by Steve Hall)
• Crime: Local and Global, by John Muncie, Deborah Talbot and Reece Walters (Eds) (reviewed by Steve Hall)
• Thinking about Punishment: Penal policy across space, time and discipline, by Michael Tonry (reviewed by Karen Harrison)
• The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941, by Rebecca McLennan (reviewed by Dr Helen Johnson