lifers

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

PSJ Special Edition on life imprisonment

[Prison Service Journal (2022)]

Special edition of PSJ looking at life imprisonment and its impact on prisoners and their families. [Past issues of PSJ are archived here].

Keywords: lifers

Independent Living Unit

[Ford (2022)]

Ruth Mann Trophy submission: a 10-bed, self-contained unit for IPPs and lifers which mirrors, as closely as possible, the circumstances they will live in after release. [More about the Ruth Mann Trophy ].

Keywords: resettlement, IPPS, lifers

HOPE Unit

[Humber (2022)]

Ruth Mann Trophy submission: a 39-bed unit running a “progression regime” for men serving IPPs, life sentences and extended determinate sentences, aimed at helping them to demonstrate their suitability for release and prepare for a successful return to society. [More about the Ruth Mann Trophy ].

Keywords: IPPs, lifers, progression