The edition of Prison Service Journal, guested edited by Dr Bill Davies and Helen Nichols, takes a look at recent insights from prison research.
In this edition:
- Editorial comment, by Dr Bill Davies and Helen Nichols
- Play and Playwork in the Prison: past, present and future, by Mike Wragg
- ‘Pure bonding time’: Prisoner and staff perceptions of the impact of taking part in a drama project for imprisoned men and their children, by Karina Kinsella and Dr James Woodall
- Enhancing access to probation interventions, by Jenny Landells and Sarah James
- Paying the Price: Sex Workers in Prison and the Reality of Stigma, by Gemma Ahearne
- On the Relevance of Police Organisational Culture Approaches to the Prison Context, by Tom Cockcroft
- Planting seedS: A feasibility study of the social and economic benefits of ‘seedS’, a mobile therapeutic healing environment designed for prisons, by Dr Jayne Crosse, Claire Shepherd, Karl Lenton and Priti Parmar
- Prisoner education in the UK: A review of the evidence by Prisoners’ Education Trust, by Clare Taylor
- Interview: Ed Cornmell, Governor of HMP Full Sutton. Education and Rehabilitation in a Category A Prison, interviewed by Dr Bill Davies and Helen Nichols
Book review:
- The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography, by Deborah H Drake, Rod Earle and Jenifer Sloane (Eds) (reviewed by David Honeywell)
