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  • The law relating to prisoners is complex, their rights depend on their status as remand or convicted prisoners, as adults or young offenders,  male or female – or transgendered – and also their sentence length and security categorisation. This section, edited by prison law Barristers, examines prisoners and the law and gives you:
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  • The Prison Act 1952 (Correct to Date)
  • The Prisons (Substance Testing) Act 2021
  • A-Z Index of over 400 prison law subjects

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  • CRIMINAL CASES REVIEW COMMISSION DATABASE

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  • Containing almost 1,000 Published Reports and Evidential Correspondence from the Parliamentary Justice Select Committee, from Parliamentary Sessions for every year right back to 2002-2003

  • PRESS RELEASE DATABASE Containing Press Releases issued by

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  • CONVERSE

  • The largest circulation national monthly prisons newspaper, and the only one edited and published 100% by reformed offenders is available online to Enhanced and Corporate subscribers of The Prison Oracle - and our archives back to 2007 too!

  • INSTRUCTIONS, ORDER AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS

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  • RESEARCH REPORTS & VINTAGE PUBLICATIONS

  • Instant access to valuable research publications:

  • The Prisons Handbook 2022

  • The Cell Companion 2022

  • Prison Law Index 2022

  • Converse Newspaper

  • Converse Archive

  • Vintage & Valuable Publications

  • The State of The Prisons: John Howard (1777)

  • Prison Commissioners: First 20 years

  • Prison Commissioners Database

  • The Punishment and Prevention of Crime 1885

  • English Prisons Today 1922

  • English Prisons Under Local Government 1922

  • Penal Discipline 1922

  • The Du Parcq Report 1932

  • The Mountbatten Report 1966

  • The Radzinowicz Report 1968

  • The May Report 1979

  • Frightened For My Life – An Account of Deaths in British Prisons 1982

  • The Maze Prison Escape 1983

  • Managing The Long-Term Prison Population 1984

  • The Breakfast Before Duty Riots 1986

  • The Woolf Report 1991

  • The Wymott Prison Riot 1993

  • The Learmont Report 1994

  • The Woodcock Report 1995

  • The Carter Report 2003

  • The Zahid Mubarek Report 2006 Vol 1

  • The Zahid Mubarek Report 2006 Vol 2

  • The Corston Report 2007

  • The Bradley Report 2009

  • The IMB Karen Page Report 2014

  • The Harris Review Report 2015

  • The Dame Sally Coates Report 2016

  • The Farmer Report For Men 2017

  • The Lammy Report 2017

  • Mental Health in Prisons Report 2017

  • The Farmer Report for Women 2019

  • Farmer Report Update

  • Black Drugs Review Report 2020

  • Black Drugs Review Report 2021

  • Kerslake Rough Sleeping Interim Report July 2021
  • Kerslake Rough Sleeping Final Report September 2021

  • GOVERNING GOVERNORS & PGDs

  • Current list of Governing Governors for all prisons and YOIs

  • PERSONAL INJURY IN PRISON

  • With violence in prisons at record levels we make this important section free to all - an expert explanation of personal injury in prison by Michael Jefferies, solicitor and Chairman of the Prison Injury Lawyers Association writes on on the rights and routes to claim compensation for personal injury sustained in prison where the injury was caused by no fault of the person injured.

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