The rehabilitative prison: What does 'good' look like?
[[{"fid":"4009","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"The rehabilitative prison | What does 'good' look like?","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"The rehabilitative prison | What does 'good' look like?"},"type":"media","link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"The rehabilitative prison | What does 'good' look like?","title":"The rehabilitative prison | What does 'good' look like?","height":"599","width":"424","style":"width: 250px; height: 353px; float: right; margin: 10px;","class":"media-element file-default"}}]]This new discussion paper aims to provide an early opportunity for voluntary sector organisations and other stakeholders to contribute views on the forthcoming prison reforms, and invites your responses to some key questions. What would characterise a different prison regime ‘conducive to rehabilitation’? What might ‘good’ look like in a newly designed prison? What could ‘good’ - or perhaps ‘good enough’ – start to look like across the rest of the prison estate?
Questions posed by the paper include:
- Do you think a smaller prison population is a pre-requisite for a reformed prison system focused on rehabilitation?
- If safety, decency and humanity constitute the bedrock of a rehabilitative culture, should these be viewed as key indicators of the rehabilitative ‘health’ of each establishment?
- What might a ‘good’ prison regime look like that addresses each individual’s reoffending risk factors and does so within an environment geared to supporting long-term desistance?
- What would be the necessary pre-conditions for truly effective involvement of the voluntary sector as the reforms progress, particularly for smaller organisations?
Over the coming months, as more detailed proposals emerge from government about the intended reforms, Clinks will be offering a variety of opportunities for these and other questions to be debated with our members and other key stakeholders. In the meantime, your responses to this paper will give policy makers and autonomous governors the benefit of learning from the sector and others, in seeking to create a truly rehabilitative culture in prisons.
Clinks would very much welcome your responses to any or all of the questions raised in the paper. Please contribute your ideas and any examples or case studies that you think are representative of ‘good’ rehabilitation in prison, by emailing lesley.frazer@clinks.org
Download the discussion paper here
Read the blog 'We need to talk about... prison reform' here
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