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Commenting on the call by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for assessments in police custody to prevent seriously mentally ill people ending up in prison today (5 August), Pia Sinha, chief executive of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “We welcome the chief inspector’s intervention. Liaison and diversion services were introduced to ensure that people experiencing acute mental ill health are identified…
Commenting on the government’s announcement that it will exclude people convicted of rape and serious child sex offenders from the release provisions in the Sentencing Act 2026, Pia Sinha, chief executive of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “The government was right to listen to the concerns of victims, but it is between a rock and a hard place. The more exclusions it adds the fewer prison places it…
Commenting on the announcement by the Prime Minister of a review of the Sentencing Act release points, chief executive of the Prison Reform Trust, Pia Sinha said: “The Prime Minister is right to take victims’ concerns seriously, but pausing these reforms does not make the prison capacity crisis disappear. These changes to release arrangements were expected to provide the single biggest reduction…
Commenting on the announcement that Lord Timpson has resigned as Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, Pia Sinha chief executive of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “We are sad to hear the news of Lord Timpson’s decision to resign as Minister of State for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending. Lord Timpson took over as prisons minister during a time of acute crisis…
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Commenting on the renewed call from UN Experts to the United Kingdom that it should undertake an urgent review and re-sentencing exercise for individuals still subject to Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences today (16 July), Mark Day, deputy director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “The UN’s intervention should be a wake-up call to the government to redouble its efforts to…
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