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.

In this edition:

• Editorial Comment
• The Truth about Prisons and Probation, by Roy King and Dr Lucy Willmott
• Preventing Prison Staff Assaults, by Dr Katherine Doolin and Dr Kate Gooch
• The state of secondary mental healthcare in prisons during a pandemic: an analysis of prison inspection reports from England and Wales, by Megan Georgiou
• Impact of introducing an alternative buprenorphine formulation on opioid substitution therapy supervision within UK prison settings, by Mark Langridge and Sarah Bromley
• Understanding and Preventing Drug-related Deaths, and Encouraging Treatment Uptake, after Release from Prison, by Dr Helen Wakeling, Flora Fitzalan Howard, Chantal Edge and Dr Jake Hard
• Relapses and challenges of desistance: Hearing the voices of men convicted of sexual offences on release from prison, by Dr Helen Wakeling
• Interview: Carwen Jones: Criminal Justice in Wales, interviewed by Karen Harrison
• Interview: Simon Shepherd: Recognising good practice in prisons and probation, interviewed by Dr Jamie Bennett

Book Review:

• Maternal imprisonment and family life: From the caregiver's perspective, by Natalie Booth (Reviewed by Dr Anna Kotova)