Comment
The long shadow of imprisonment
The heavy price being paid by prisoners from the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown is well-documented.
News
Article on prisoner vulnerability, out now
Richard Garside cited as co-author in recent peer reviewed article on prisoner vulnerability by lead author, Professor Paul Bebbington.
Co-authored with Paul Bebbington, Sally McManus, Jeremy W. Coid, Terry Brugha and Richard Garside, 'The mental health of ex-prisoners: analysis of the 2014 English National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity' is the first...
Comment
Recognising vulnerability in the prison population
The very high levels of psychiatric disturbance and suicidal thinking in prisoners are well established.
Comment
Punishment and access to education in prison today
Since the first national penitentiary, Millbank, opened on British soil in 1816, the debate in England and Wales over what prisons are actually for, and what they should try to achieve, has continued almost unabated.
Publication
Perspectives from inside: A report from HMP Grendon and HMP Barlinnie
In this report Abigail Amey, Zoe Ellis and Will McMahon summarise the views of those who attended two events held at HMP Grendon, in June 2014, and HMP Barlinnie, in October 2014, as to how far UK...
News
Anti-poverty strategies for prisoners and looked after children
On November 17 we held an event entitled ‘Prisoners and looked after children – a common cause?’.
The roundtable was full to capacity, with many delegates representing organisations working directly with people in need. The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, presented the case for a new social policy on poverty that introduces a principle of reparation...
Comment
Institutional care and poverty: making common cause?
Consider this scenario: a social policy analyst examining evidence about two groups in institutional care notices that many members of each group come from a background of poverty and face an...
Comment
Prisoners are people too
I’m in the middle of writing a speech for an event on criminal justice under the coalition government Friday week. The speech is called, rather modestly,...
Comment
One cheer for votes for prisoners
For those who still doubt that Andrew Neil is, at heart, a deeply unpleasant man, take a look at his BBC ‘interview’ of a couple of days ago...