A 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 [...]
80% of crime could be due to poor parenting
Four-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. Read the full article here
The disgrace of Britain’s jails: Institutions short-change inmates and society
Britain’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 [...]
The ‘ghosting’ of prisoners must stop
The practice of constantly shifting vulnerable prisoners around the penal system is expensive, cruel and potentially deadly Read the full article here
Inmates self-harmed after being moved ‘like chess pieces’
LONDON — 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. Read the full article here
Revealed: the hidden army in UK prisons
The 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. Read the full article here
‘Mentally ill inmates not receiving employment support’
Sainsbury centre for mental health says prison work schemes exclude those with mental health problems Prisoners 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 [...]
