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Prisons

  • Research Briefing

    Delivering public services: The growing use of Payment by Results

    Monday, 29 April, 2013

    The Payment by Results (PbR) approach to delivery of public services is not new and is not without controversy. This note looks at current and planned projects in rehabilitation, welfare to work, the NHS, children’s social services and with rough sleepers and with vulnerable young people.

    • Research Briefing
    • Children's social services
    • Prisons
    • Work and incomes
  • Research Briefing

    Reducing reoffending: the “what works” debate

    Friday, 23 November, 2012

    This paper examines the evidence for the effectiveness of prison and programmes in the community aimed at reducing reoffending and some of the claims and counter-claims for whether “prison works”.

    • Research Briefing
    • Crime
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    The Prisons (Property) Billl: Committee Stage Report

    Thursday, 22 November, 2012

    The Prisons (Property) Bill would allow a governor or director of a prison to destroy unauthorised property found in prisons, or dispose of it in other ways including selling it. It has its report stage and third reading on 30 November 2012.

    • Research Briefing
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    The Prisons (Interference with Wireless Telegraphy) Bill

    Thursday, 13 September, 2012

    This Private Member's Bill, which has government support, would allow mobile phones to be blocked in prisons.

    • Research Briefing
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    The Prisons (Property) Bill

    Thursday, 13 September, 2012

    This Private Members' Bill, which has government support,would allow a governor or director of a prison to destroy unauthorised property found in prisons, or dispose of it in other ways.

    • Research Briefing
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    Criminal Memoirs

    Wednesday, 23 May, 2012

    This note explains the civil recovery scheme designed to prevent criminals profiting from accounts of their crimes (for example in an autobiography or television or newspaper interviews). It also looks at the rules preventing serving prisoners from publishing such information and at the relevant media codes of practice.

    • Research Briefing
    • Crime
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    Legal aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill Bill No 205 of 2010-12

    Monday, 04 July, 2011

    This Research Paper has been prepared for the second reading of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. The Bill covers a diverse range of issues, including legal aid; litigation funding and costs; sentencing; bail, remand and release on licence; prisoners’ pay and employment; out of court disposals and knives.

    • Research Briefing
    • Criminal law
    • Justice
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    Women in prisons: a select bibliography

    Monday, 04 July, 2011

    This note suggests further reading on the subject of women in prisons.

    • Research Briefing
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    The disturbance at HM Prison Ford on 1 January 2011

    Thursday, 24 March, 2011

    This note discusses some of the controversy surrounding the recategorisation of prisoners to category D and examines what is known about the disturbance at HM Prison Ford, which is subject to two ongoing investigations.

    • Research Briefing
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    End of Custody Licence

    Monday, 01 March, 2010

    The End of Custody Licence (ECL) was introduced in June 2007 to help deal with prison overcrowding. Eligible prisoners may be released up to 18 days before their release date, but can be recalled if they misbehave. Some prisoners are disqualified, including those convicted of certain violent offences. Since its introduction, over 36,000 prisoners have been released early under ECL. The Government have said that they intend the scheme to be a temporary one. The Conservatives have pledged to abolish the scheme, and the Liberal Democrats have also criticised it.

    • Research Briefing
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    Youth crime and punishment in England and Wales

    Tuesday, 19 January, 2010

    This note summarises the statistics relating to the youth criminal justice system in England and Wales.

    • Research Briefing
    • Child care
    • Crime
    • Justice
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    Crime and Security Bill. Bill 3 2009-10.

    Tuesday, 22 December, 2009

    The Bill would amend the law governing the taking, retention and destruction of fingerprints and DNA data from persons arrested for, charged with or convicted of criminal offences. It would reduce the requirements on the police to record information following a stop and search. It would introduce new 'go' orders for suspected perpetrators of domestic violence, which could mean excluding them from their homes in order to protect the victim. The Bill would also, in effect, extend new injunctions for gang-related violence to 14-18 year olds, and require courts to issue a Parenting Order where a child under 16 had breached an Anti-social Behaviour Order. It would require wheel clamping companies to be licensed, and create a new offence of possessing an authorised mobile phone in a prison. It also creates a new offence of preventing a person under 18 from gaining unauthorised access to air weapons.

    • Research Briefing
    • Crime
    • Institutions
    • Police
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill Bill 130 of 2006-07

    Thursday, 09 August, 2007

    • Research Briefing
    • Asylum
    • Civil law
    • Crime
    • Criminal law
    • Energy
    • Immigration
    • Justice
    • Police
    • Prisons
    • Security
  • Research Briefing

    The Offender Management Bill Committee Stage Report

    Monday, 26 February, 2007

    • Research Briefing
    • Prisons
  • Research Briefing

    The UK Borders Bill

    Wednesday, 31 January, 2007

    • Research Briefing
    • Asylum
    • Crime
    • Immigration
    • Nationality
    • Prisons

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