Publication
Prison Service Journal: 196
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
The second of two editions of Prison Service Journal, on the future direction of prisons.
This edition profiles the views and perspectives of staff, prisoners, prisoners' families and those working in the charitable sector.
In this edition:
- Editorial Comment
- Interview: Prison Governor, interviewed by Jamie Bennett
- Interview: Prison Officer in a High Security Prison, interviewed by Martin Kettle
- Interview: Senior Officer in Training Services, interviewed by Maggie Bolger
- Interview: Instructional Officer, interviewed by Martin Kettle
- Interview: Prisoner in a local prison, interviewed by Ray Taylor
- Interview: Prisoner in a local prison, interviewed by Dr Rachel Bell
- Interview: Prisoner in a female closed prison, interviewed by Monica Lloyd
- Interview: Life sentence prisoner, interviewed by Margaret Adams
- Interview: Prisoner in open conditions, interviewed by Monica Lloyd
- Interview: Mother of a serving prisoner, interviewed by Christopher Stacey
- Interview: Father of a serving prisoner, interviewed by Christopher Stacey
- Interview: Worker for a large charitable organisation, interviewed by Michael Fiddler
- Interview: Worker for a small charitable organisation, interviewed by Ray Taylor
- Values and Practices in Public and Private Sector Prisons: A Summary of Key Findings from an Evaluation, by Professor Alison Liebling, Dr Ben Crewe and Dr Susie Hulley
- Songs from the Black Chair: A Memoir of Mental Interiors, by Charles Barber (reviewed by Professor Alison Liebling)
- Drugs, Crime and Public Health: The political economy of drug policy, by Alex Stevens (reviewed by Ray Taylor)
- Positive Practice Positive Outcomes: a handbook for professionals in the criminal justice system working with offenders with learning disabilities, by Department of Health (reviewed by Jenny Talbot)
- Correctional mental health: From theory to best practice, by Thomas Fagan and Robert Ax (Eds) (reviewed by Dr Rachel Bell)
- Not Bad for a Bad Lad, by Michael Morpurgo (reviewed by Peter Quinn)