Lifers Conference
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059904600313 |
| Author | Katrina Glennie |
| Date | 01 September 1999 |
| Published date | 01 September 1999 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
role of health visitors (in highly deprived
since 1985. While this growth presents a
areas) and an expansion of school
serious logistical problem for the Prison
counselling services.
Service, it was emphasised that more
resources and coordination are needed if
.
Comprehensive personal, social and
lifers are to be treated
health education
humanely - they
are on the agenda. So is
must be seen as a discrete
the ethnic diversity of the population.
group
throughout their sentence. This has not
.
Services for young people should not
happened before as there is no lifer system
only be separate from that of adults, but
as such despite the existence of a Lifer
should also include an advice element.
Management Unit with which, it was
The NHS should have responsibility for
noted, communication was poor. Major
the care and health promotion of young
difficulties identified were: a lack of
people in prison accommodation.
preparation for release, inconsistency of
.
Money is invariably the biggest
block
approach, no sentence structure, little
to the best of plans, so the budgets
family contact, minimal knowledge about
of youth offending teams should be ring-
the prisoners and the fact that more than
fenced to ensure their continuity.
60% were in custody a year after their due
date.
.
Additionally, £217 million are to be
invested in a drugs strategy and another
Recommendations included:
£84 million from the Department of
.
The creation of Regional Induction
Health earmarked for child and mental
Centres and a unit to take responsibility
health services.
for the whole sentence.
This succinct and easily read report
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More preparation for tariff date.
draws much needed attention to yet
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More consideration of criminogenic
another area of concern about the health
needs.
and welfare of children in our midst.
.
Assessment of the quality of service
Children, Health and Crime: A
Report by
both probation and prisons provide and
NACRO’s Committee on Children and
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