{"id":2574,"date":"2016-05-20T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:55","slug":"prison-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/05\/20\/prison-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">This week the RSA published an interesting<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thersa.org\/discover\/publications-and-articles\/reports\/the-future-prison---scoping-paper\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\"> scoping paper on the future prison<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">.\u00a0 Browse their website to see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thersa.org\/discover\/topics\/prisons\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">other examples<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> discussing the role and future reform of prisons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardleague.org\/our-work\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Howard League for Penal Reform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> is the oldest prison reform charity in the UK.\u00a0 Its website has news stories, policy and research publications covering all aspects of prison reform.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Another key body is the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk\/ProjectsResearch\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Prison Reform Trust.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 It supports a range of projects relating to conditions in prison, rehabilitation, race and gender .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">For basic statics on numbers in prison see this <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/researchbriefings.parliament.uk\/ResearchBriefing\/Summary\/SN02620\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">House of Commons Briefing which explains the facts and figures.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 The parliament website also <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/topics\/prisons.htm\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">highlights other recent parliamentary materials and reports.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/queens-speech\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/queens-speech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0This week the RSA published an interesting scoping paper on the future prison.\u00a0 Browse their website to see other examples discussing the role and future reform of prisons. Howard League for Penal Reform is the oldest prison reform charity in the UK.\u00a0 Its website has news stories, policy and research publications covering all aspects of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,15],"tags":[234,232,93],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-politics","category-sociology","tag-criminology","tag-prisons","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}