Following the changes in Government Machinery that took place on the 09/05/2007, this area of work has moved from the Home Office; and is now managed by the Ministry of Justice. These pages have been left here as a navigational aid – and will be removed in time.
Long-term
forecasts which project the growth of the prison population
over the next eight years are published annually as one of the series
of Statistical
Bulletins.
RDS
also manages or carries out research for the Home
Office, the Prison Service, the Parole Board and many other bodies
involved in the administration of criminal justice in the UK and
in England and Wales. Current research in progress includes
research on drugs strategy in prisons
study
of reconvictions to support drugs treatment programmes in prisons
research
on pre-release programmes in prisons and resettlement issues
discipline
in prison
Most
of this research is published on completion as reports or as shorter
four-page Research
Findings.
Click here
for a link to the Prison Service website.
Useful links
The International Centre for Prison Studies was established in the
School of Law, King’s College London in 1997. It helps governments
and agencies to develop appropriate policies on prisons and the
use of imprisonment. For further information see the
International Centre for Prison Studies
