| Description | Grant file containing correspondence, file sheet, reports, financial papers, grant terms and conditions, copy memorandum and articles of association, copy composite resolution and project proposal relating to the Prison Reform Trust (PRT). Funding source(s): Barrow Cadbury Trust. 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 2008 the Trust agreed to grants totalling £32,000 for final core funding which includes a minimum of £5,000 to produce an exit strategy for Trust core funding. Minutes: No minutes cited. Notes: File organised by subject. File not numbered. |