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Action for Prisoner's Families: Action for Prisone
Action for Prisoners' Families promotes the just treatment of prisoners' families by the prison system and society across the UK. It encourages the development of, and acts as a voice for, organisations providing support to these families. |
BBC Report on Prisoners' Rights
A simple guide to the basics of Prisoners' Rights in the UK. |
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Border History Museum - United Kingdom
Hexham, Northumberland UK The museum is located in the first purpose-built gaol (jail) in England - constructed in 1330 to imprison convicted Reivers. The museum explains the history of the Reivers using reconstructions, artifacts and interpretation. |
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Our mission is to promote just and effective responses to crime and related harms by informing and educating through critical analysis, research and public debate. |
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Citizens' Advice Bureau - Prisoners
Rights of prisoners including information on legal rights, benefits and housing, and how to complain about conditions in prison. |
Clink Prison Museum - United Kingdom
The Clink Prison Museum is on the site of the original Clink Prison ("possibly the oldest mens prison and probably the oldest womens prison in England") which held prisoners from the early Tudor years until 1780. Shakespeare visited an old schoolfriend here. The museum in Clink Street can be booked for private parties. |
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HM Prison Service
HM Prison Service – Information about Prisons in England and Wales, prison life, family support and advice, job vacancies and resources. |
Inside Out Trust
Inside Out Trust works with offenders in prison, giving them opportunities to do work that they know will deliver real benefits to other people. Offenders tell us, again and again, that the experience of “doing good” makes a difference for them. They feel they are making amends, putting something back. Experience of working with thousands of offenders confirms our belief, that each one of us can do useful work, and contribute to the good of others and to our communities. All our projects reflect that belief – in the good that individuals can do – also our belief in partnership, in working together. All our projects are partnerships. They involve offenders, prison officers and governors, staff and volunteers, suppliers and beneficiaries. |
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Lincoln Castle - England
Lincoln, England Lincoln Castle was one of the first great castles to be built by William the Conqueror. Begun in 1068 he used the hill top site that the Romans had occupied with their first fort. The prison was built on the castle green enclosure in 1787 and enlarged by the Victorians. Many prisoners here were deported to Australia and many more were executed on the ramparts. |
New Bridge Prison Liaison Project
Prison Liaison Project, Prison, Resettlement, Drugs, Accommodation, Support, Advice, New Bridge, Alcohol, Abuse, Employment, Training, HMP, counselling, Mental Health |
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PACT - Prison Advice Care Trust
The Prison Advice & Care Trust (pact) is an independent charity which supports people affected by imprisonment. We work with children and families of prisoners, and with prisoners inside and on release. We want a safer, more humane society. We run Visitors' Centres and children’s services at a number of prisons, and carry out resettlement work with ex-prisoners in the community Our ‘first night in custody’ services aim to reduce the extreme anxiety often felt by prisoners on their first night inside, and to reduce the possibility of self-harm and suicide. |
Parkhurst Prison Museum - United Kingdom
UK In the later part of the 1700's, there was a growing concern for the safety of juvenile prisoners, some of whom were only six years old, many of which were incarcerated in the old, rotten and disease ridden sailing ships commonly referred to as hulks. The prison opened its doors on the 26th December 1838, taking in 102 boys and changed considerably over the course of its operation. It was known as one of England’s toughest jails. |
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Prison Reform Trust - UK
The state of our prisons is a fair measure of the state of our society. The Prison Reform Trust works to ensure they are a just, humane and effective. Prisons are the most shaming of all our public institutions. The United Kingdom has the highest imprisonment rate in Western Europe at 145 per 100,000 of the population - in conditions which are frequently an affront to civilized values, and at great cost to the taxpayer. Yet the vast majority of our prisoners do not present a serious threat to life or limb. Their crimes are such that they can be more humanely, economically and effectively dealt with in the community. |
Prisoners Advice Service
The Prisoners’ Advice Service (PAS) is a registered national charity and remains the only charitable organisation in the UK with a specific remit to provide free prison law legal advice, representation and intervention to adult persons in prison in England and Wales in relation to their treatment whilst in prison custody and the conditions in which they are being held. |
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Restorative Justice Consortium
Restorative Justice takes place in the criminal justice system, and helps communities to deal with conflict in schools, the workplace and neighborhoods. |
Rethinking Crime and Punishment
A three-year strategic grant making initiative to raise the level of public debate about the use of prison and alternative forms of punishment in the UK |
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Revolving Doors Agency
Revolving Doors Agency is the UK's leading charity concerned with mental health and the criminal justice system. |
Ruthin Gaol - United Kingdom
Ruthin's first gaol is thought to have been located in the Old Court House of the Lordship of Ruthin. This half-timbered building, now the National Westminster Bank, was built about 1404 following Owain Glyndwr's attack on the town which left very few, if any, houses standing. Baronial, manorial and other courts were held; prisoners being detained in cells below the magnificent beamed court room. Richard Gwyn, a Welsh Catholic martyr, spent the last four years of his life imprisoned in the building before his execution at Wrexham in 1584. |
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Smart Justice
SmartJustice is a crime reduction campaign. We widen the public debate on crime and punishment and increase confidence in community-based solutions to crime. We work in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies, the police and community groups. |
The Butler Trust - Encouraging effective care for
The Butler Trust was set up as a registered charity in 1985 in memory of ‘RAB’ Butler (Lord Butler of Saffron Walden), a reforming Home Secretary, to promote and encourage positive regimes in UK prisons. An independent Annual Award Scheme was established to recognise exceptionally dedicated, and often creative, work undertaken by prison staff and volunteers. |
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