Comment

Prison lockdown: breaking minds and destroying lives

Under the tight restrictions of lockdown in prisons in England and Wales since March 2020 in response to COVID-19, it is now the ‘norm’ for prisoners to be kept in their cells for up to 23 hours a day.

28 October 2020
Comment

Remembering and forgetting the Woolf Report

Lord Justice Woolf’s Prison Disturbances April 1990: Report of An Inquiry (1991) is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and progressive reports in the history of prisons in England and Wales.

15 September 2020
Publication

Prison Service Journal: 231

This edition of Prison Service Journal explores themes related to prison reform and prison abolition.
Prison Service Journal
3 May 2017
Comment

The sickness haunting the prison system

There is a sickness haunting the prison service in England and Wales. This sickness, which systematically generates suffering and death, goes right to the very heart of the daily workings of prison regimes.