Prison Service Journal: 231

This edition of Prison Service Journal explores themes related to prison reform and prison abolition.

In this edition:

• Editorial comment
• Can prisons contribute to social justice? Interview with Richard Garside, interviewed by Paul Addicott
• Addressing the Problems of the Prison Estate: The role of Sentencing Policy, by Professor Julian V Roberts and Lyndon Harris
• Prison Planning and Design: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future, by Yvonne Jewkes
• Digitizing the Prison: The Light and Dark Future. Interview with Steven Van De Steene, interviewed by Dr Victoria Knight
• What does Brexit mean for prison law and policy? Interview with Dirk Van Zyl Smit, interviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett
• What is to be done? Thinking about abolitionist alternatives, by Dr David Scott

Book reviews and theatre review:

• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, by Heather Ann Thompson (reviewed by Professor Joe Sim)
• The management of change in criminal justice: Who knows best?, by Martin Wasik and Sotirios Santatzoglou (Eds) (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
• Justice and penal reform: Reshaping the penal landscape, by Stephen Farrall, Barry Goldson, Ian Loader and Anita Dockley (Eds) (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
• Imprisonment Worldwide: the current situation and and alternative future, by Andrew Coyle, Helen Fair, Jessica Jacobson and Roy Walmsley (reviewed by Steve Hall)
• Remote control: Television in prison, by Victoria Knight (reviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett)
• Theatre review: Through the Gap, York Theatre Royal (reviewed by Peter Quinn)