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Making It Up: parents in prison connecting through stories
Making It Up: parents in prison connecting through stories 11th March 2021 Give a Book workshop leader David Kendall joins us in this guest blog to share the importance of storytelling and how, over lockdown, the project has been keeping prisoners connected with their families. The Making It Up project from reading charity Give a Book supports parents in prison to bond with their children by creating storybooks.
NCJAA: What does success look like for arts in criminal justice settings?
What does success look like for arts in criminal justice settings? is the bold new paper from the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA), commissioned by Arts Council England in 2017, highlights the findings from a series of roundtables which considered the titular question. The paper has special relevance to writers and artists working in criminal justice settings, such as writers-in-residence at prisons.
Consensus on women in prison, but where's the action?
There has been more inexplicable delay in the government’s plans for women in criminal justice. It renders urgent the question of how to address women’s health issues and the harmful impact of incarceration. Liaison and Diversion schemes are already in place for some cases in some parts of the country. They can and should be expanded. Women in criminal justice are at increased risk of poor mental and physical health often because of adverse events in childhood such as neglect and sexual abuse.
Suicide and the criminal justice system: a more complete picture
In The Lancet Psychiatry, Seena Fazel and colleagues1x1Fazel, S, Ramesh, T, and Hawton, K. Suicide in prisons: an international study of prevalence and contributory factors. Lancet Psychiatry. 2017; 4: 946–952Summary | Full Text | Full Text PDF | PubMed | Scopus (1)See all References raise important issues about factors predicting prison suicide.
Human cost of delivering healthcare in unhealthy prisons
Successive UK governments have received strikingly similar recommendations on prison reform from chief inspectors,1 Justice Select Committees,2 and independent parliamentary inquiries,3 yet largely ignored them. Now, an unprecedented increase in rates of deaths in custody4 suggests that deteriorating conditions are compromising the delivery of adequate physical and mental health services.
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