We want to provide decent, safe and secure accommodation that supports individuals in their rehabilitation. We want to reduce levels of violence and self-harm and develop the evidence on what structures and interventions can help improve outcomes for individuals in prison.
We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Prisons are experiencing numerous problems: rising numbers, 'new' populations requiring specialised care (e.g. elderly men, military veterans); an ageing and dilapidated estate that spatially exacerbates effects of overc...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Bath
The project partially answers the question by discussing the challenges and problems in the secure estate for children and young people, but does not provide specific solutions or improvements.
Matter Architecture is leading a project to develop a set of design tools for improving rehabilitation through the architecture of prison environments. Together with Space Works we are connecting evidence from the field ...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: MATTER ARCHITECTURE LTD
The project partially answers the question by focusing on the design of prison environments to improve rehabilitation outcomes, but does not provide specific solutions for the transition from the secure estate for children and young people to the adult estate.
This proposal uses data from over 100,000 prisoner surveys conducted by Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales (HMIP) over the last twenty years to examine how prisoners' reports of their treatmen...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Royal Holloway University of London
The project partially answers the question by using data from prisoner surveys to examine the treatment and conditions in prisons, but does not specifically address the transition from the secure estate for children and young people to the adult estate.