Tag: Prison
A Day in the Life of an Investigator at Insights25
Ever wondered what happens when someone dies in custody or shortly after release? Or when a prison fails to respond properly to a prisoner’s complaint?
Event recording – watch it back: National Year of Reading 26: Every story starts here – and continues with us
Sarah Mcknight, Deputy Director of Employment, Skills and Education, HMPPS, reflects on our hugely successful, interesting and informative event.
Supporting transitions into, within and out of imprisonment: Why it’s important and how we can help
Rachel Gibson, PSJ Co-Editor, and HMPPS Evidence & Insights Team, and Ruth Parkes, Guest editor, University of Lancashire, invite you to register for our exciting event.
From Glass House to Class Act
Vincent Kelly is a custodial manager at HMP Wormwood Scrubs with over 25 years of experience of working in the closed estate. Here he describes a visit to the Military Corrective Training Centre (MCTC- formerly known as “The Glasshouse”) where he cast an expert eye across some of the excellent work taking place there, built some bridges and used this to benefit learning in HMPPS.
Developing prison culture through Participatory Action Research: Findings from a new research study
Following up on the previous blog, Dr Rachel Gibson talks us through working with two prisons to develop their culture, using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach, and what this research suggests for prisons wanting to use PAR to develop their culture.
Loneliness within the Criminal Justice System
At an upcoming Insights event, Sarah McKnight, Deputy Director for Employment, Skills and Education in HMPPS and Marie-Elise Howells, Deputy Director for Volunteering and Tackling Loneliness at the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), will talk us through why it is very important that we consider how loneliness and its negative effects may be exacerbated for people serving time in prison or on community sentences.
Event Recording: watch it back. Why HMPPS is moving towards Recovery-Oriented Systems to tackle drug and alcohol use
Mike Wheatley, Head of Drug and Alcohol Group in HMPPS, reflects on our hugely successful, interesting and informative event on 5th March.
Where do we start if we want to change the culture of a prison?
Dr Rachel Gibson talks us through her recent work with Flora Fitzalan Howard, and Dr Helen Wakeling to better understand how to change prison culture.
Celebrating Wildlife, Sustainability and Biodiversity in HMPPS, and how you can help.
Beatrice Finch, HMPPS Rehabilitation Directorate Sustainability Lead, explains what is happening across HMPPS and explains how you can help support biodiversity.
Transitioning Young Adults in the Criminal Justice System
Vikki Ryan, Young Adults, National Prison Lead and Jane Browne, Head of Youths & Young Adults, National Probation Lead, explain the work that has been progressed to improve how young adults transition between youth and adult custody, youth custody to the probation service and between youth justice and probation. This blog was originally published to support HMPPS Young Adult Awareness Week in February 2022 has been updated to signpost to the published policies.