The latest views and discussion from Clinks staff and guest writers. We also use blogs to give short updates on our latest projects, as well as briefings on topics of interest to members.
Providing families of people serving the indeterminate IPP sentence with ‘A Helping Hand’
Harry Annison and Christina Straub from the University of Southampton have been leading a research project with Prison Reform Trust on the views of families of people serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences.
Understanding the HMPPS grant programme for 2020-2022
We recently held three stakeholder events to give voluntary organisations further information about the upcoming Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) grant programme for 2020-2022. This blog summarises the key takeaways from the events.
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Blogs
Prison regime delivery during national lockdown: what voluntary organisations need to know
This blog provides an update on what the prison regime now looks like after the implementation of national restrictions in England on Tuesday 5th January and Wales moving to alert level 4 from 19th December 2020.
Publications
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons consultation on second version of Expectations for Women
Clinks provided further feedback to Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) on the development of a revised set of Expectations for Women, the criteria used to conduct inspections of women’s prisons.
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Without support in the community, stricter curfews and increased tagging are likely to cause more people breaching the terms of their licence and returning to a prison system that is underfunded and overcrowded. Latest blog on the sentencing white paper https://www.clinks.org/community/blog-posts/sentencing-white-paper-alte…