Prisoners as Citizens
| Date | 01 June 2002 |
| Published date | 01 June 2002 |
| Author | Kerry McCarthy |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455050204900214 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
also helping to meet certain Key
quarters of these leading to revocation and
Performance Indicators.
re-sentencing.
Throughout the main body of the report
The Introduction of Referral Orders into
the balance between figures, the voices of
the Youth Justice System – Final Report.
prisoners and prison staff, combined with
Home Office Research, Development
an occasional focus on specific schemes or
and Statistics Directorate Study 242,
institutions makes for an interesting read.
March 2002.
Some findings include:
Robin Tuddenham
•
Peer support was the most prevalent
Strategic Manager, Barking & Dagenham
form of volunteering available (one in 14
Youth Offending Team
prisoners) but there was little provision
of training or opportunity to obtain
qualifications.
Prisoners as
•
The most common way to help the
community was from inside the prison,
Citizens
through charity workshops or groups using
prison facilities such as the gym. However
Published by the Prison Reform Trust and
less than 3% of prisoners were involved.
based on research funded by the Calouste
•
Just over 1% of prisoners were
Gulbenkian Foundation, this report
permitted outside the prison walls to
provides an overview of volunteering and
volunteer in the community. This often
active citizenship by prisoners in England
leads to an increased sense of
and Wales. It is based on the replies of 117
responsibility; links with the local
of the 136 prisons surveyed through a
community break down the stereotypes of
semi-structured questionnaire. In addition
prisoners.
eight prisons were visited, including all
types of institution, with prisoners and a
•
The number of releases on temporary
wide range of prison personnel being
licences has fallen in proportion to
consulted. Chapter two details the research
increases in the prison population, despite
questions and methodology, and highlights
only 0.1% of temporary releases in 2000
how current concerns with ‘risk’ can be
ending in any...
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