Prison Reform Trust

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

It Doesn’t Have To Be Like This: Prisoner Policy Network Perspectives on Future Prison Design.

[Prison Reform Trust (2021)]

Prisoners views on what makes an effective prison regime – from PRT’s Prisoner Policy Network

Keywords: regimes

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.

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.

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

The impact on children when mothers are involved in the criminal justice system

[Prison Reform Trust (2018)]

Report on the impact that women being imprisoned has on their children.

Keywords: families, children, female offenders

Ensuring a safe environment: a conflict centred strategy

[Prison Reform Trust (2018)]

Report from the Prison Reform Trust on “the most effective strategies to prevent prison violence are based on resolving conflicts among people in prison before they escalate”.

Domestic abuse as a driver to women’s offending

[Prison Reform Trust (2017)]

Report identifying links between women’s experience of domestic and sexual abuse, as well as coercive relationships, and their offending. Includes a number of recommendations for various agencies to improve their practice in this area.

Keywords: female offenders