| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, file sheet, file notes, reports, financial papers, agendas, copy memorandum and articles of association and project proposal relating to the Prison Reform Trust (PRT). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Fund Ltd. Applicant overview: PRT is a registered charity that works to create a just, human and effective penal system. The organisation was established in 1981 in London by a small group of prison reform campaigners who were concentrating more on community punishments than on traditional prison reform issues. PRT aims to improve prison regimes and conditions, defend and promote prisoners' human rights, address the needs of prisoners' families, and promote alternatives to custody. The charity carries out research on all aspects of prison. Studies include: prisoners' views on prison education, the mental health needs of women prisoners, older prisoners, prisoners with disabilities, prisoner councils, foreign national prisoners, prisoner votes, and a report into how sentencers make the decision to imprison offenders. PRT's activities also include advice and information, education, parliamentary lobbying and the provision of the secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Penal Affairs Group. Nature of support: In 2009 the Fund agreed to a grant of £30,000 over one year to support a variety of PRT equalities activities. Minutes: No minutes cited. Notes: File organised by subject. File not numbered. |