Prison Reform Trust

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

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”.

Keywords: violence reduction, safer custody

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

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