rehabilitation

There is an urgent need to address serious issues that adversely affect the safety and decency of our prisons, the opportunity they offer for rehabilitation and their contribution to reducing reoffending, says the Chief Inspector of Prisons.

Planned government changes to sentencing will add to pressures on prisons, without reducing crime or improving public confidence, a new Prison Reform Trust report warns.

Quakers in Britain have responded to the outcome of the general election by challenging the new government to make progress on key priorities.

Too many prisons continued to be plagued by drugs, violence, appalling living conditions and a lack of access to meaningful rehabilitative activity, says the Chief Inspector of Prisons.