| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, copies of newspaper cuttings, reports, invitations and project proposal relating to Prison Reform Trust (PRT) research the privatisation of prisons. Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. Applicant overview: PRT is a registered charity that works to create a just, humane 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: No grants were made. Minutes: No minutes cited. Notes: This file contains primarily minutes and reports from the PRT on the subject of prison privatisation. File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/5/3'. |