Prison Service Journal

On the release of the 250th Prison Service Journal, the issue offers contributors the opportunity to reflect upon prisons and imprisonment in the past half a century.

This issue focuses on Learning Together, which was started in 2015 by Dr Ruth Armstrong and Dr Amy Ludlow, both based at University of Cambridge.

The first of a two-part special edition on understanding the past. The second part was published in April 2020. In this edition: Editorial comment , by Dr Alana Barton and Professor Alyson Brown The Castle or the Green Field: dilemmas and solutions in English prison planning, 1780-1850 , by Allan...

This edition take stock of the current state of play in relation to rehabilitative culture, and provides ideas, illustrations and advice for practice.