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A prisoner who successfully sustains a family relationship is 39% less likely to reoffend than one who does not. For the past 10 months, most prisoners have only been entitled to just one 30-minute call per month. As such, many family relationships have completely broken down. 💔

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"In Norway, the punishment is just to take away someone's liberty. The other rights stay. Prisoners can vote, they can have access to school, to health care; they have the same rights as any Norwegian citizen. Because inmates are human beings." - Norwegian officials

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IPP prisoner Wayne Bell, who was jailed for a minimum of two years for taking a bike in 2007 - is still incarcerated after more than 16 years and his family fears he will never be freed.

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We are not “running out of prison places.” We are just sending too many people to prison who do not need to be there.

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All prisons should have in-cell phones without delay. Despite what prisoners may have done, their loved ones are innocent and this has to be taken into consideration.

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People in prison should be engaged in exercise, education, employment and training – which overstretched, understaffed jails are unable to provide. Instead, people are warehoused in unsafe conditions for hours on end with nothing to do, with suicides becoming increasingly common.

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Prison staff have been instructed to stop handcuffing prisoners on hospital visits when they are too frail or unwell to pose an escape risk. New rules on the use of restraints were issued by HMPPS last month following cases where prisoners were cuffed unnecessarily.

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Those who believe incarceration should be maximally harsh and devoid of joy or connection must reckon with reality: The more we isolate and torture people in cages, the less safe we all become.

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The reason prisoners are getting more unwell is due to various factors i.e; sick building designs, lack of sunlight and nutritional food, lack of stimulation and connection. We are treating people poorly to encourage them not to behave badly and it doesn't make any sense at all.

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In Norway, prison guards are employed not just to open & close doors. As guarantors of security, psychologists & guidance counsellors, they are an integral part of the rehabilitation process. “We are more like social workers than guards.”

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The Netherlands has shut 23 prisons since 2014; their prison population has halved since 2004; during the ten years from 2008, Dutch prison sentences dropped by a quarter and jail terms for young offenders by two thirds, while their crime rate dropped by 40 per cent.

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Our prisons are not trauma informed, and actually, are only traumatising people and their families further. Many prison staff likely have their own unhealed traumas, which could be linked to wanting to exert power over individuals for the wrong reasons.

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Prison doors swing both ways; sooner or later 90-95% of prisoners will return to society. If these people have not been rehabilitated and educated, then society has not been protected in any fundamental way and the public’s faith in its prison system is sheer delusion.

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A conviction should be 'spent' as soon as the sentence is over. Stopping people from finding employment is the surest way to encourage people to commit crimes to survive.

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Too often a prison sentence does not cure the causes of crime, but aggravates them. Instead of helping prisoners to connect with jobs & become included in society, it can take away their employment, housing & family links, & leave prisoners destitute, on the road back to prison.

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More prisoners should absolutely be granted sentence reviews if they have shown significant improvement. We can punish prisoners more severely & risk changing them for the worse, or we can design sentencing rules in a way that helps prisoners rehabilitate & change for the better.

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If prisons actually worked, we wouldn’t need to build more of them. Moreover, we send too many people to prison who absolutely do not need to be there and keep people in far longer than necessary. If the government reduce the prison population, there wouldn’t be a staff shortage.

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Leaving prisoners in boiling hot cells all day can be fatal, much the same way as leaving a dog in an over-heated car. Management must ensure their establishments keep decent temperatures, for all prisoners & staff's safety.

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If the Government is serious about reducing deaths in custody; Stop building more prisons. Reduce the prison population by releasing & resentencing IPP prisoners. Install in-cell phones in all prisons. Give prisoners more meaningful work & education & productive time out of cell.

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Dutch officials have said: "The conditions of some of the UK's jails are inhumane & degrading contrary to article 3 of the ECHR" so have refused to extradite certain prisoners because of such conditions & added that "UK prison conditions have no place in such an advanced nation."

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An IPP prisoner is protesting on the roof at HMP Manchester. He has declared he was given a tariff of 4 years but has now served 12. Most IPP prisoners are now years over tariff with no end date in sight. Suicide is also the highest in this particular prison population group.

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A panorama film crew member who visited HMP Feltham went on record to say "I can truly say that it was an experience like no other. The self-harming, violence, and pure misery would be hard to find in a war zone. We were, they are just kids who are being treated like animals."

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We should only as a last resort, put people in prison who pose a significant danger to the public. Most prisoners do not.

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A watchdog has said that a prison’s food budget of £2.15 per prisoner per day is not enough to feed adult men. Given the cost of food prices, it remains a very low sum from which to provide three meals a day.

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After spending 17 years in unjust imprisonment & having his wrongful conviction overturned, Andrew Malkinson has discovered that he is required to pay the Prison Service 25% of his government compensation to cover the costs of his accommodation & meals during his incarceration.

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Most prisoners want to get themselves together and reform themselves for the better, but how can they if the system who holds the keys for this objective does not give them the tools and support to do so? Our system is failing prisoners which is also failing victims as a result.

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Following a 3 week trial, an IPP prisoner (12 years over tariff) has today been found not guilty, unanimously by an emotional jury, of 5 charges relating to an assault on prison officers in 2018. The impact this has had on his progression & mental health cannot be underestimated.

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In 2017, Alex Chalk spoke on prisons “You can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners. It may not be a fashionable cause for an MP to take up, but with 3 of my former constituents dying behind bars in the last 18 months, I am determined to speak out on this issue.”

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Regardless of prison officers likes or dislikes towards particular prisoners; each prisoner should be treated equally and fairly. However, some prison staff develop a personal hatred of certain prisoners and bully the person, leading to severe abuse of helpless prisoners.

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An IPP prisoner has said he has no hope left to fight & that he has to accept the fact that he may very well die in prison. The anguish of this thought is incomprehensible. He has not seen his mother in over 4 years as he said it's too hard to walk back to the wing after a visit.

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How can prisoners be expected to consistently display "healthy" behaviours in an environment that is consistently unhealthy?

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It's just so tragic when an ordinary person actually has to study law to prove their own innocence and basically do the job the justice system should be doing. These days, you get the justice you can afford.

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Many people feel that prisoners shouldn’t have access to laptops, but this fails to see the bigger picture. Having digital skills is a necessity for applying for jobs etc. Without these skills, prisoners are much less likely to be able to get a job after being released from jail.

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Everyone understands that if you leave a child or animal in a car on a hot day, there’s a serious risk that they could become seriously injured or die. That's exactly what we’re doing when we leave prisoners locked in cells when the heat & humidity climb beyond a certain level.

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Prisoners in HMP Swinfen Hall haven't had a supply of toilet roll in nearly 3 weeks. Wipes have also been removed from the canteen sheet. Maintaining hygiene levels should be paramount in such a confined environment & is absolutely necessary for the safety of prisoners & staff.

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Prisoners are frequently abused by a hypocritical and apathetic system. They suffer beatings, prolonged solitary confinement, poor quality food and are frequently-denied medical care. These violations are far more common than prison administrators would have the public believe.

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Training as a prison officer in Norway takes 2 years, while in England its 12 weeks, which is perhaps the shortest of all staff training in Europe. Prison staff need to be recruited, trained & remunerated at a level that will motivate & enable them to provide more effective care.

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“If you treat people badly, it’s a reflection on yourself.” In Norway's officer training school, guards are taught that treating inmates humanely is something they should do not just for the inmates but for themselves.

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Two prison officers have appeared in court charged with manslaughter over the death of a prisoner at HMP Liverpool. Following an investigation by Merseyside Police, the CPS authorised charges against the two members of staff in connection with the dad's death.

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An IPP prisoner 'trapped' in jail is to finally be free after 17 years. The man was just 17 when he was convicted of 2 attempted robberies of a coat & mobile. A judge recommended he serve a minimum of 15 months before applying for parole but it has taken 17 years for his release.

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If prison punishes people through the experience itself but then does not offer prisoners the opportunity to improve and change their lives, can we realistically expect people to be rehabilitated and not return to crime?

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There is always a punishment element to prison, although it is important for the prisoner and the general public to understand that being put in prison and loss of liberty is the punishment, and that it is not the job of the prison to continue to punish people.

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UK prison food is of extremely poor quality, pricey and it's getting worse. You are what you eat. Prison food is making prisoners overweight and lethargic. Most of the food is very high in sugar and salt. More nutritional food is needed for both mental and physical health.

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If the prison system is going to dehumanize prisoners, then how will prisoners ever feel that they are worthy of a place in society. Their liberty is taken away as punishment, but then nothing more is done beyond this point to actually reform and rehabilitate.

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The saddest thing about life imprisonment from young adulthood, is that there is never an opportunity to redeem yourself. Many will leave prison at retirement age, hold no life skills & have no relationships left to ever prove themselves beyond what they were convicted for.

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Prison is a socially threatening environment, so is bound to lead to significant personality changes. The worry is that these personality changes, while they may help the prisoner survive their jail time, are counter-productive for their lives upon release.

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Norway’s prison system ensures that it provides a multitude of programs and courses that one could find at traditional recreational centres. Hobbies such as yoga, woodwork & studio time ensure their jails create a peaceful atmosphere, rather than a place for hatred and violence.

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We increased sentence lengths and made it more difficult for people to be released because we were told it was needed for public safety. But sending people to prison for long periods does not reduce crime. In fact, longer sentences, if anything, create crime.

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Why are we building more prisons when we should be building more mental health facilities, ran & supported by medical professionals?

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Recognising that a large percentage of those who get locked up have mental illness, the Norwegians front-load the prison experience with analysis and therapy. It's a more costly approach, but it leads to shorter prison stays, lower recidivism rates and fewer wasted lives.

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Prisoners currently pay for their phone calls per minute in a way almost no one else in society does. There is no reason why this should be the case – it’s just an old system that’s become routine.

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Removal from society is the punishment, anything above & beyond that is cruelty. Keeping a person in a restricted environment for 23 hours daily, enduring months, or even years without respite, ensures that they may never regain the ability to safely reintegrate into society.

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The Government need to review sentencing policies so that prison is used as a last resort rather than as a first resort. Prison is an ineffective and costly system which might actually work better if it held fewer people and actually tried to rehabilitate them.

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A joint investigation by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and Probation found that most prisoners seldom meet the prison-based probation officers who are meant to be preparing them for release, and the system is so complicated that neither staff nor prisoners fully understand it.

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The trauma accumulated while in prison is beyond comprehension. The suffering that occurs in prison is everyone’s concern, as the trauma seeps into our society, affecting communities for generations.

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In order for an individuals mental health to thrive & progress, they must have, regular human contact, access to healthcare & healthy dietary choices, regular exercise, fresh air & education etc. Why do we fall short of this in our prisons, the place where it is needed the most?

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For those prisons without in-cell phones, prisoners retain their right to respect for private and family life under the human rights act 1998. It is not up to the public to cast moral judgements on what prisoners may or may not have done. Prisoners' human rights apply regardless.

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Prison officers should undertake a prison law course as part of qualifying for their role. As it stands, most prison officers do not have a clue about the legislation which governs prisoners' development.

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The goal of the Norwegian penal system is to get inmates out of it. “Better out than in” is an unofficial motto of the Norwegian Correctional Service, which makes a reintegration guarantee to all released inmates.

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New study has found: 85% of prisoners have been locked in cells for more than 23 hours a day for months at a time, with no access to rehabilitation courses, family visits or exercise. This in effect subjected inmates to “one of the most extreme confinement regimes in the world.”

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In Norway, candidates for the role of a prison officer must obtain a two-year degree from a special staff academy, where they study a mix of criminology, law, welfare, applied ethics, & social work. Researchers said they were blown away by the humanity & depth of its curriculum.

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Many persons who have been sentenced to prison do not represent a real danger or threat to the community. The court has ordered them imprisoned because few other meaningful alternatives for punishment exist.

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We have only just heard that a man @HMP_Wandsworth committed suicide 2 days ago on B wing. Why has this only now emerged? When will the government acknowledge the high number of suicides in our prisons & the fact that these regimes are literally killing people? @CEOofHMPPS

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"In prison you can’t do anything by yourself. You have to depend on officers, you have to depend on a very slow routine, a service, you have to do everything by paper. It’s a very slow lifestyle – it really reduces you, it really, really takes it out of you."

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If you work in a prison & do not hold the core values of what it means to work within this community, then you are not doing yourself, the prisoners, the system & society any favours. We need people in the system who lead by example & who want to see & make positive changes.

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Too many people in this country are incarcerated, warehoused in cramped spaces which lack fresh air, healthy food, natural light, proper healthcare, and connection to loved ones. Prisons are run with little to no public oversight, leading to extreme abuse of power and corruption.

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IPP prisoner Luke Ings was ordered to serve a minimum of 18 months for robbery when he was 17-years-old. He is now 35 years old and still in prison. His mother made the following statement - “18 months, yes, not 18 years.” Luke, like all other IPP prisoners, has no release date.

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Prison staff should be highly qualified experts but the government are desperately recruiting people with no expertise or experience. This ultimately leaves the public less safe as our prisons are failing to do their job of rehabilitating prisoners.

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A big increase in the prison population is not something to celebrate. We know from decades of research around the world that prison does not work. Prison does not reduce reoffending, and, on average, fails to prepare prisoners for a successful return to society.

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The punishment when you go to prison is the loss of liberty. Prisoners should not then be subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment. The hypocrisy of the system and the blatancy of the torture and neglect in UK prisons is incredulous and is damaging prisoners beyond repair.

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“We are clear that prisons are full, that we do not have enough staff, and at what point will Government be brave enough to limit the use of prison solely for those who present the greatest risk to the public?”

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Longer prison sentences will not cut crime. Moving forward, we must recognise that people change, and that a rational justice system must include mechanisms allowing individual evaluations of long sentences and the potential for earlier release.

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Our prisons claim that most prisoners have "behavioural" issues when, actually, what they have are mental health issues. The behavioural issues, which prisoners are punished for, are actually a bi-product of their mental health, which is exacerbated by the prison environment.

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20,000 more prison places are being built, despite no rise in crime. Most occupants will include the mentally unwell, young men and women convicted of joint enterprise, IPP prisoners, and those struggling with addictions. This use of the prison system is truly regrettable.

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When a person is sent to prison, their family & friends are often forgotten. As victims themselves, they are left unsupported & left to manage a situation which is out of their control, & which has a huge negative impact on their lives, emotionally, physically & financially.

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Putting someone away for years, for 23 hours a day serves no reason. Our system is creating psychiatric patients who will die in prison, because they will never be able to interact with other people again.

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“If you wish to rehabilitate [prisoners], what they need is a job, a home and family relationships. Put inside, they lose all three.”

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Prison should be used as a last resort. Much more needs to be done to divert people away from the system. A reduction in the overall prison population would make it easier for prisons to provide an environment that meets appropriate standards of decency, safety, care and respect.

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Prisoners cannot implement coping mechanisms when there is no access to visits, education, employment or general time out of their cells which allows for them to have some form of normality.

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"One of the worst parts of prison life is pure boredom. Mental torture can be worse than physical torture, & it takes work to keep one’s mind sane & functional for years & years on end. Intellectual stimuli is limited to an extremely underfunded & understocked prison library."

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Our entire justice, policing, prison and probation systems need a complete overhaul. The media need to stop with the holiday camp narrative and start printing the truth and reality of prison life.

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Prisoners should be viewed as people that once were in society, and are a PRODUCT of society. What made them what they were and are is usually still part of the society that rejects and scorns them. How does this make society superior to them?

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Evidently, we are sending people to prison & expecting them to fix themselves with absolutely no resources whatsoever. For those sentenced to 2-3 years in the last 2 years, will have spent that time locked up 23 hours a day yet will be expected to come out changed for the better.

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“We put in prison people because they have done things which hurt society. So we hurt them more as a way of improving them. This treatment amounts to torture, it’s insane & sadistic & guaranteed to inflict pain on society.” Dr Johnson, a former consultant psychiatrist in prisons.

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Prison is trauma. Prison exposes the prisoner to drugs, violence, psychological brutality and suicide. It ruins families, makes rehabilitation harder and increases reoffending.

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Prisons' poor medication management not only puts prisoners at risk but also places additional pressure on an already stretched healthcare service. Staff shortages are another reason why prisoners are not receiving their medication on time and missing medical appointments.

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What’s needed isn’t bigger prisons with more places in them, but fewer prisons with properly paid and trained staff, and good rehabilitation programmes. More prisons and more police officers with targets to hit means more arrests and more young men will be jailed.

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“I think people generally have a distorted view of what happens to people in prison. There is no mental health support. There is no rehabilitation. We literally sit there at your expense, doing nothing, getting worse."

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After serving time in prison, ex-prisoners are released with significant and ongoing economic and societal obstacles that often prevent them from thriving, thus indirectly pushing them back to crime, and back into the prison system.

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Prisons are subjecting prisoners to inadequate conditions, such as sharing single-person cells without windows and being confined for 23 hours daily. The Chief Inspector of Prisons emphasises the need for prisoners to have a minimum of ten hours outside their cells each day.

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Prisoners serving IPP sentences are being denied parole because they are considered incapable of "regulating their emotions". But it doesn't make sense to expect them to have control over their emotions while serving an IPP sentence.

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"Prisons aren’t supposed to be comfortable, nor are they supposed to kill you." There is no excuse for failing to provide prisoners with constitutionally required safe and humane cells. But politics, more than money, is often the obstacle.

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has defended Scotland’s policy of providing every prisoner with a mobile phone saying it is vital to maintain family ties & promote rehabilitation. 86% of cells in the UK have phones but category A prisons which hold long-termers are still without.

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People should only be sentenced to prison as a last resort for the crimes they have committed. They should not be sentenced for crimes committed by someone else.

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After a visit at one of HMP's prisons today, it left us with more questions than answers. Prisoners expressed they feel like they are in human storage containers, the courses are not worth the paper they are written on & not knowing their rights was a major block to progressing.

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Prisoners' families largely remain forgotten victims. Financial difficulties, emotional issues & prison visiting are particular concerns. It is essential that prisoners' families are included in the debate on growing prison numbers & approach on longer sentences.

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It’s safe to assume Norway's criminal justice system is doing something right. Few citizens there go to prison, and those who do usually go only once. It has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20%.

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