| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, minutes, agendas, grant overviews, file sheet, terms of grant, accounts, copies of published material, leaflets, project proposals and funding requests relating to the Prison Reform Trust (PRT). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust, Barrow and Geraldine S. Cadbury Trust, Penal Affairs Programme. 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 1993 the Trust offered two annual grants of £5,000 towards ongoing research by PRT on prison privatisation. In 1994 the Trust approved a grant up to £20,000 for two or three years towards core PRT salary costs on the advice of Penal Affairs Programme Relevant Trustees. That same year a further grant of £5,000 was agreed to 1994/1995. In 1996 a single grant of £25,000 was agreed towards the costs of a study of on the US experience of mandatory sentencing, plus grants of £10,000 for 1996/1997 and £20,000 for 1997/1998. In 1998 a final grant of £10,000 was made to complete work on prison privatisation research. That same year a grant of £12,000 was made towards a study on prison regimes for asylum seekers and immigration detainees. Additionally, annual grants of £25,000 towards core costs was agreed for 1999/2000 and 2000/2001. In 2001 these grants were continued for three years at the same level. In 2004 grants of up to £22,000 were agreed to be paid over two years for research on staffing in the Prison Service. Minutes: BCT 12, BCT 278, BCT 553, BCT 554, BCT 555, BCT 1049, BCT 1313, B&GSCT 7627, B&GSCT 7786, PAP 10/94. Notes: File organised from newest to oldest. File numbered 'EA/5/3(A)'. |