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Prison Service News magazine features all the latest news, views and developments from HM Prison Service including policy initiatives and emerging front line programmes. An essential read for anyone working in the criminal justice system.
The spirit of social enterprise is alive and well around the estate, and The Ideas Project is giving it a major boost at establishments in London and the south-east.
Being in prison can be tough. Being disabled or elderly in prison can only be tougher still. At HMP Wakefield award winning work is addressing the needs of this group of prisoners.
March 2000 saw the racist murder of a prisoner, Zahid Mubarek, by his cellmate in Feltham Young Offenders Institution. An investigation followed and the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) published a report in December 2003 on racial equality in prisons. Five years on, NOMS has completed a review examining what progress has been made in addressing the failures.
Prison staff are giving the thumbs-up to a new electronic rostering system rolling out across the estate this year. PSN met implementation lead Clive Broom to find out how the system will simplify all aspects of rostering in establishments.