Prison Reform Trust

A Long Stretch The challenge of maintaining relationships for people serving long prison sentences

[Prison Reform Trust (2024)]

Helpful view of needs of long term prisoners to maintain relationships and how prisons can help.

Keywords: prisoners, families

“This is Me”: A Child Impact Assessment toolkit

[Prison Reform Trust (2022)]

Resources to support children with a mum in the criminal justice system, from the Prison Reform Trust.

Keywords: children, families, female offenders

Making Progress? What progression means for people serving the longest sentences

[Prison Reform Trust (2022)]

This report presents the findings of a prisoner consultation carried out by PRT’s Building Futures programme.

Keywords: progression, lifers, long termers

Women in prison: mental health and well-being — a guide for prison staff

[Prison Reform Trust (2020)]

A guide for prison staff to help them understand how prison life can affect a person’s mental health, with a focus on women.

Keywords: mental health, wellbeing, female offenders

How can we reduce tensions, conflict and violence in prison?

[Prison Reform Trust (2020)]

Research based on interviews with prisoners on their views about reducing violence in prisons.

Keywords: violence reduction, safer custody

Improving employment opportunities for women with criminal convictions

[Prison Reform Trust (2020)]

Briefing, in partnership with the Working Chance charity, on evidence about women’s employment opportunities and barriers.

Keywords: female offenders, employment

Exploring distress in prison from the perspective of people in prison

[Prison Reform Trust (2020)]

Research into distress among prisoners and ways in which it might be ameliorated – drawing on prisoners’ own ideas and experiences.

Keywords: safer custody, self harm, suicide

Out of the Shadows: Women with learning disabilities…

[Prison Reform Trust (2019)]

The report considers women with learning difficulties in the contexts of legislative and policy frameworks, getting support, and criminal justice system responses, while also giving a voice to those women to talk about their experiences.

Keywords: female offenders, learning disability

What incentives work in prison?

[Prison Reform Trust (2019)]

A report from the Prison Reform Trust’s Prisoner Policy Network, on the views of those with lived experience on what does (and does not) work in incentivising people in prison.

Keywords: incentives