families

Visiting someone in prison

[HMPPS (2019)]

A summary of evidence relating to the experience of visiting someone in prison and how services may improve the experience for visitors. Part of HMPPS’ Prison & Probation Evidence Resource.

Keywords: families

Supporting relationships between prisoners and their families

[HMPPS (2019)]

A summary of evidence relating to the impact of imprisonment of families and how supporting relationships between prisoners and their families may support rehabilitation. Part of HMPPS’ Prison & Probation Evidence Resource.

Keywords: families

Children and families in prisons

[Good Book of Prisons (2019)]

Findings – from interviews with over 2000 staff, prisoners and managers from across the custodial estate – in relation to children and families, and maintaining family relationships, in prisons. [From the Butler Trust’s Good Book of Prisons].

Keywords: families

PSJ Special Edition on prisoners’ families

[Prison Service Journal (2018)]

A special edition of PSJ focusing prisoners and their families.

Keywords: families

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

Life in Prison: Contact with Families and Friends

[HMI Prisons (2016)]

This findings paper is part of a series which focuses on daily life in prisons and YOIs. It summarises literature concerning the importance of prisoners maintaining relationships with the outside world, and friends and family in particular.

Keywords: families

Young offenders and trauma: experience and impact: a practitioner’s guide

[Beyond Youth Custody (2016)]

This practitioner briefing aims to highlight what is known about the links between trauma and young people’s behaviour and development.

Keywords: young people, families, resettlement

Enhancing Care for childbearing women and their babies in prison

[Various (2015)]

This report focuses on Mother and Baby Units (MBUs) in women’s prisons, and the services they provide to childbearing women in prison and their babies.

Keywords: families