Publication
Prison Service Journal: 230
Thursday, 2 March 2017
This edition of Prison Service Journal addresses themes regarding safety and rehabilitation.
In this edition:
- Editorial comment
- A short ride on the penal merry-go-round: relationships between prison officers and prisoners within UK Drug Recovery Wings, by Charlie Lloyd, Geoff Page, Alison Liebling, Sharon Grace, Lorna Templeton, Paul Roberts, Neil McKeganey, Christopher Russell and Zetta Kougiali
- Disciplinary adjudications as potential rehabilitative opportunities, by Flora Fitzalan Howard
- Implementing a brain injury offender strategy through the introduction of a specialist support service in prison, by Deborah Fortescue, Sara Da Silva Ramos and Michael Oddy
- Mindfulness and its Potential Application on Offenders in Care, by Jennifer Hogan
- Empowered to be resilient: Neo-liberal Penal Rhetoric and The Corston Report (2007), by Helen Elfleet
- The predictive validity of the LSI-R, the VRAG, and the PCL-R for prison misconduct among lifetime prisoners, by Dr Ulrika Haggård and Dr Åsa Eriksson
- Humanising Incarceration: A Prison Chaplain’s Pastoral Response to ‘A Rising Toll of Despair’, by The Reverend David Kirk Beedon
- ‘You just get on with the job’: Prison officers’ experiences of deaths in custody in the Irish Prison Service, by Colette Barry
- A Sense of Freedom, by Jimmy Boyle (reviewed by Professor Joe Sim)
- Redeemable: a Memoir of Darkness and Hope, by Erwin James (reviewed by Gareth Christopher)