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Lunch with...Khatuna Tsintsadze
Watch the last episode of 'Lunch with..' in our first series, with Khatuna Tsintsadze.
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Webinar clip: Who are Project 507?
In our latest episode of 'Lunch with...', Whitney Iles explains what Project 507 does.
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Have prisons replaced the pits in our former industrial heartlands?
Prison-building has become one of the go-to regeneration tools in the former industrial heartlands of England and Scotland, according to new research we are publishing today.
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Coal today, gone tomorrow: How jobs were replaced by prison places
It is commonplace that prisons are created and maintained to hold those sentenced by the courts, and those remanded while awaiting trial.
Comment
Second wave in prisons more deadly than the first
Since my last update in December, HMPPS have released another two weeks worth of data on infection levels in prisons in England and Wales.
Comment
Continued government failure to control COVID-19 in prisons
Last week the Ministry of Justice released figures for confirmed cases of COVID-19 in prisons and COVID-19 related deaths.
Comment
Counting the costs of extreme lockdown in prisons
“They’re going grey in the face and are constantly tired and worn out. They haven’t had any sunlight.”
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25 days in April: Part 2 Strangeways podcast out now
Listen to the second part of our two-part podcast produced by National Prison Radio on the Strangeways protests and the past, present and future of prisons.
Part two examines the legacy of the Strangeways protests and the role of prisons and imprisonment since. Produced by National Prison Radio and with support from the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust, the podcasts situate the protests within the wider context of the state of prisons in the...
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Prisons and politics
An article by our Director, Richard Garside, on the politics of imprisonment, is published in the latest edition of Prison Service Journal.
Comment
Pressured times call for emergency measures in Scotland's prisons
The months of March and April felt like an eternity as the world was changed by COVID-19, and justice authorities grappled with how to deal with the issues in prisons.
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Prisons and the COVID-19 crisis webinar
Last weekend, our Director Richard Garside participated in an online panel discussion on prisons during the current pandemic.
Chaired by John Rees, other panellists were criminologist and former prison monitor, Faith Spear and Steve Gillan, General Secretary of the Prison Officers' Association.
Watch the full session here.
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Cases of coronavirus in prisons: England and Wales
Coronavirus cases continue to spread among prisoners and prisons in England and Wales.