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offendersFor A Criminal Justice System Friendlier Towards Mentally IllWednesday, December 30th, 2009A major university in UK has taken up a research project to find out what could be done to make the criminal justice system friendlier towards people with mental health problems. Such persons are more likely to be victims than perpetrators of crime and yet the current procedures could make it difficult for them to report a crime or go to court. The objective of the new project is to find a way out of the logjam. 80% of crime could be due to poor parentingMonday, November 23rd, 2009Four-fifths of all crime is committed by people who had conduct problems as children, a report by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has found. The disgrace of Britain’s jails: Institutions short-change inmates and societyMonday, November 16th, 2009Britain’s prison system is being “brought to its knees”, according to penal reform experts responding to a damning new report obtained by The Independent on Sunday. The soaring prison population, consistently high re-offending rates and increasing numbers of people on short sentences highlighted in the Prison Reform Trust’s dossier have produced a system that is “not fit for purpose”, they say The ‘ghosting’ of prisoners must stopFriday, October 23rd, 2009The practice of constantly shifting vulnerable prisoners around the penal system is expensive, cruel and potentially deadly Inmates self-harmed after being moved ‘like chess pieces’Thursday, October 22nd, 2009LONDON — Senior prison bosses were under investigation on Tuesday after they were found to have shifted several “difficult” inmates between two London prisons in order to con inspectors. Revealed: the hidden army in UK prisonsFriday, September 25th, 2009The number of former servicemen in prison or on probation or parole is now more than double the total British deployment in Afghanistan, according to a new survey. An estimated 20,000 veterans are in the criminal justice system, with 8,500 behind bars, almost one in 10 of the prison population. ‘Mentally ill inmates not receiving employment support’Friday, September 4th, 2009Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health says prison work schemes exclude those with mental health problemsPrisoners with mental health problems are not being given the help they need to find work when they are released, a leading charity has claimed. A policy paper by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health found that too many prison-based work preparation schemes excluded this group because they are not thought to be ready for work. |
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