Product Description: For the past few years prisons have attracted much media attention, due to substantial increases in the prison population and the deteriorating conditions in which prisoners are held. In addition, there has been industrial action by prison officers and a series of disturbances and riots by prisoners...read more

Product Description: An excellent analysis of UK inititiaves to test prisoners for drugs and alcohol. The findings of a two-year study into the effectiveness of the RAPt drug treatment programme which enables male prisoners with self-confessed problems of substance misuse to lead a drug and alcohol-free life in prison and in the community after release...read more

Product Description: Opened in Britain in 1962 to investigate and treat prisoners whose crimes had a clear psychiatric cause, Grendon Prison promulgated radical ideas of rehabilitation through psychological and psychotherapeutic treatment that have been embraced by the influential Woolf Report...read more

Product Description: This pioneering study looks at the history of race relations policy in British prisons and the ways in which approaches to immigration and race relations legislation have influenced attitudes toward race relations. Providing an in-depth focus on three institutions and the personal experiences of their staffs and inmates, the book examines racial stereotypes in prisons, problems of and responses to discrimination, impediments to future improvements in race relations, and possible reforms...read more