Prison Service Journal

This special edition, on the transformational potential of prison education, is both a celebration about possibilities, and a critique of current models.

The edition of Prison Service Journal , guested edited by Dr Bill Davies and Helen Nichols, takes a look at recent insights from prison research.

This edition of Prison Service Journal , guest edited by Dr Ruth Mann and Jeannine Hendrick, examines what causes prison violence, what works in reducing prison violence, and equally importantly, what doesn’t work.

The articles in edition of Prison Service Journal reveal some of the core features of prison life: prisons as a reflection of an instrument of wider social power structures; the efforts to construct prisons as humane institutions, and; the ambition that prisons become places in which lives can be...