Prison Service Journal 258

The latest 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.

In this edition:

• Editorial comment
• After Care, After Thought?: The Invisibility of Care Experienced Men and Women in Prison, by Dr Kate Gooch, Dr Isla Masson, Emmy Waddington and Amber Owens
• ‘Out of Place’: The Criminalisation of Black and Minority Ethnic Looked After Children in England and Wales, by Dr Katie Hunter
• Challenging Perceptions of Care-Experienced Girls and Women, by Dr Claire Fitzpatrick
• Twenty suicides of care experienced people in custody: 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
• Moving forwards: Using creative methods for people in prison with care experience, by Dr Michelle Baybutt and Dr Laura Kelly-Corless
• Interview: Jessie Ben-Ami: Always Hope: New approaches to improving support networks for young adults with experience of care whilst serving prison sentences and on release, interviewed by Debbie Mckay
• Care Leavers in Custody in HMPYOI Deerbolt, by Dawn Simpson, Gail Kirkby and Debbie Mckay
• Interview: Jackie Ristic and Alecia Johnstone: Good Practice in Prisons, interviewed by Debbie McKay
• Reflections of a ‘Champion’, by Teresa Clarke
• How the correct support can lead to positive outcomes for people with care experience, by Tassie Ghilani

Book reviews:

• The Brightness of Stars: Stories of Adults Who Came Through the British Care System, reviewed by JP
• Snap, reviewed by SM