[Serco prisons (2021)]
Ruth Mann Trophy submission: an IT-based system for helping to identify vulnerable prisoners and those at risk of self isolation.
Keywords: safer custody
[Serco prisons (2021)]
Ruth Mann Trophy submission: an IT-based system for helping to identify vulnerable prisoners and those at risk of self isolation.
Keywords: safer custody
[Stocken prison (2021)]
Ruth Mann Trophy submission: prisoner buskers line the route to work, playing music to brighten the day and lighten the mood of prisoners and staff alike.
Keywords: safer custody, violence reduction, wellbeing
[Wealstun prison (2021)]
Ruth Mann Trophy finalist: “Problem Support Mentors” are trained wing based peer mentors acting as social problem solving coaches, using the 6 step problem solving principles of the Thinking Skills Programme (TSP).
Keywords: peer mentoring, safer custody, problem solving
[Whitemoor prison (2021)]
Ruth Mann Trophy submission: Whitemoor has removed all razor blades from the prison, replacing them with electric razors and depilation creams.
Keywords: safer custody
[HMPPS (2019)]
A summary of evidence about what works and doesn’t work, to help reduce violence in prison. Part of HMPPS’ Prison & Probation Evidence Resource.
Keywords: violence reduction, safer custody
[HMPPS (2019)]
A summary of evidence relating to suicide and self harm in prison and how services can identify and support those at risk. Part of HMPPS’ Prison & Probation Evidence Resource.
Keywords: suicide, self harm, safer custody
[Good Book of Prisons (2019)]
Findings – from interviews with over 2000 staff, prisoners and managers from across the custodial estate – in relation to incentives and other forms of behavioural management in prisons. [From the Butler Trust’s Good Book of Prisons].
Keywords: incentives, behaviour management, safer custody
[Good Book of Prisons (2019)]
Findings – from interviews with over 2000 staff, prisoners and managers from across the custodial estate – in relation to violence and self harm in prisons. [From the Butler Trust’s Good Book of Prisons].
Keywords: safer custody, self harm, suicide, violence reduction
[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
[Ministry of Justice (2018)]
A review of the evidence to improve understanding of self-harm in adult men in prison, and thereby help inform strategies for supporting those in crisis and identify effective interventions.
Keywords: self harm, safer custody