This issue of Prison Service Journal, co-edited by Debbie McKay and Dr Kate Gooch, looks at the question of care leavers and the criminal justice system.
Including Katie Hunter on the criminalisation of black and minority ethnic looked after children, Justin Rogers and Ian Thomas on suicides of care experienced people in custody, and Claire Fitzpatrick on care-experienced girls and women.
In this edition
Introducing this special edition on the people in our prisons who have experience of the care system
By Debbie McKay and Dr Kate Gooch
The Invisibility of Care Experienced Men and Women in Prison
By Dr Kate Gooch, Dr Isla Masson, Emmy Waddington and Amber Owens
The Criminalisation of Black and Minority Ethnic Looked After Children in England and Wales
By Dr Katie Hunter
A scoping review of the Ombudsman’s fatal incident reports for care experienced people who died in custodial settings between 2004 and 2020
By Dr Justin Rogers and Ian Thomas
Using creative methods for people in prison with care experience
By Dr Michelle Baybutt and Dr Laura Kelly-Corless
Interview with Jessie Ben-Ami, currently leading Innovation Unit’s Always Hope project, aiming to transform the professional and personal networks that support care leavers in prison and on release
By Debbie McKay
Interview with Dawn Simpson, Services Manager, and Gail Kirkby. Project Worker, both with NEPACS
By Debbie McKay
Interview with Jackie Ristic, previously the Care Experienced People Lead at HMP/YOI Lincoln and Alecia Johnstone, a Free Church Chaplain at HMP Preston
By Debbie McKay
