27 March 2009
LOCKED UP POTENTIAL: PRISON REFORM REPORT LAUNCHED
The Centre for Social Justice Prison Reform Working Group, chaired by Jonathan Aitken, published its report this week. "Locked Up Potential: a strategy for reforming prisons and rehabilitating Prisoners" was launched to the media on Monday 23 March 2009.
This 276 page report provides a comprehensive analysis of and 70 policy recommendations for our failing prison system. Press coverage, including interviews with Jonathan Aitken and Iain Duncan Smith, included the Guardian, the Observer, the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, the Independent, the Evening Standard as well as regional and specialist press.
The Review details policy ideas for: prison management and governance; overcrowding; mental health and substance abuse; prisoners families; personal development through education, training, work and the arts; prisoners and their victims; resettlement, and three proposed new Acts of Parliament.
The three core recommendations of the report are:
- Localising the management of the prison system by abolishing the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and replacing it with a network of Community Prison and Rehabilitation Trusts (CPRTs).
- Scrapping the Titan prison programme and reinvesting part of the budget to build five recommended new Mitson Academy model prisons.
- Revolutionising prison rehabilitation to reduce re-offending and its annual £12 billion cost.
"Locked Up Potential" Full Report click here
Executive Summary
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CSJ AWARDS 2009 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED TODAY
A record number of poverty fighting projects applied for the CSJ Awards this year. 355 poverty fighting voluntary groups and charities applied for a prize from a £50,000 pot.
The 12 successful shortlisted groups are announced on our website today.
The final prize winners will be announced at an event in central London on 1 July 2009 with MPs, senior policy makers and celebrities attending to award the cash prizes. To find out who stands a chance of winning this year www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/awards
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OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR (TO COVER MATERNITY LEAVE) £20,000 PER ANNUM
The Centre for Social Justice requires a pro-active and energetic Office Administrator to cover maternity leave. The full time role is purely administrative with responsibilities for coordinating cleaning, IT, book keeping and finances, event and personnel administration and more. The role also requires some physical work.
Apply by 15 April 2009. For a full job description and how to apply click here.
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GANGS REPORT FOLLOW UP WORK
The CSJ Gangs Report Dying to Belong published on 4 March has generated a lot of interest. Charlotte Pickles, Senior Researcher and author of the Report, spoke at Trinity College, Oxford at the McWhirter Dicey Conference in the presence of the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson. Charlotte also provided an update to a London Borough police gangs strategy group, and will be speaking at the Birmingham Regeneration Conference at the NEC next week.
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Locked Up Potential [23/03/2009]
70 policy proposals for the effective reform of prisons and the rehabilitation of prisoners, Chaired by Jonathan Aitken
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IN THE NEWS
The CSJ was mentioned in the following articles since our last email news letter:
The Guardian, 25 March 2009
'Prisoners of hope'
Read here
Morning Star, 24 March 2009
'Britain - Ex-con backs Tory jail plan'
Read here
The Independent, 24 March 2009
'Why we are all haunted by religion'
Read here
The Guardian, 24 March 2009
'Scrap Titan jail plans, urges Jonathan Aitken'
Read here
The Independent, 23 March 2009
'The way we treat prisoners creates a conveyor blet of crime'
Read here
The Evening Standard, 23 March 2009
'Londoner's Diary'
The Independent, 23 March 2009
'Duncan Smith attacks key Thatcherite policy'
Read here
The Sunday Express 23 March 2009
'IDS slams Thatcher 'ghettos''
Read here
Daily Post (Liverpool), 23 March 2009
'Cash incentive to cut reoffending'
Read here
The Guardian, 23 March 2009
'In praise of... Jonathan Aitken'
Read here
The Independent, 23 March 2009
'Jonathan Aitken: The way we treat prisoners creates a conveyor belt of crime'
Read here
The Sunday Telegraph, 22 March 2009
'Prisons must be set free from this cycle of failure'
Read here
The Observer, 22 March 2009
'Give convicts a fresh start, pleads Aitken'
Read here
The Sunday Telegraph, 22 March 2009
'Give cash bonuses to prison officers who reduce re-offending, says Conservatives'
Read here
The Daily Telegraph, 21 March 2009
'Our prisons must be freed from the cycle of failure'
Read here
The Daily Mail, 21 March 2009
'Thatcher's Houseing sell-off was flawed, says Iain Duncan Smith'
Read here
Daily Telegraph, 18 March 2009
'A strong family and a small state ought to go hand in hand'
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