Prison Service Journal 260

A general edition of Prison Service Journal, covering a range of topics, including preventing prison staff assaults, drugs and prisons, and criminal justice in Wales.

Including Roy King and Dr Lucy Willmott on the truth about prisons, Dr Katherine Doolin and Dr Kate Gookd on preventing prison staff assaults, Carwyn Jones on criminal justice in Wales, and Simon Shepherd on recognising good practice in prisons and probation.

In this edition

Introducing this general edition, featuring content about prisons and life through and beyond the prison gates

By Roy King and Dr Lucy Willmott

By Dr Katherine Doolin and Dr Kate Gooch

An analysis of prison inspection reports from England and Wales

By Megan Georgiou

By Dr Helen Wakeling, Flora Fitzalan Howard, Kate Netten, Chantal Edge and Dr Jake Hard

Hearing the voices of men convicted of sexual offences on release from prison

By Dr Helen Wakeling

Interview with Carwyn Jones, former First Minister of Wales and currently Professor of Law at Aberystwyth University

By Karen Harrison

Interview with Simon Shepherd, Director of The Butler Trust

By Dr Jamie Bennett