Prison Service News magazine features all the latest news, views and developments from HM Prison Service including policy initiatives and emerging front line programmes. An essential read for anyone working in the criminal justice system.
Recognising ‘ordinary work extraordinarily well done' across the prison and probation services is the aim of the Butler Trust Awards. And Jinnie Jefferies, Head of Psychodrama at HMP Grendon, has won the Terry Waite Award for work with lifers and long-term prisoners.
Hostage situations, forcing entry to a cell and getting through barricades are all situations establishment-based Control & Restraint (C&R) teams may have to face. The Method of Entry training course teaches how it's done.
Advertising is vital to any recruitment campaign. But it is not the only way to attract people, as the work of the Kent & Sussex Area Outreach Team shows.
Phil and Gareth Jones from the Community Placement Team at HMP Prescoed tell PSN how resettlement work in partnership with other agencies is impacting on re-offending rates.