
Converse – For 18 years the largest circulation national monthly Newspaper for Prisons of England & Wales
Converse: 40-pages, circa 50K copies, delivered in print to prisons every month – also available digitally in public & private prisons on in-cell technology, and downloaded in almost 100 prisons on 2,500 inmate offline laptops too!


Latest edition: July 2025
(Next edition 4th August 2025)
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Additionally…
- the Ministry of Justice uploads each edition of Converse to their In-Cell technology hub, so its also available in all prison cells fitted with the technology, and
- all private sector prisons upload it to their digital in-cell Prisoner Information system too, and
- on top of that Converse is also downloaded each month to over 2,500 offline prisoner education laptops in almost 100 prisons as well!
In this month’s 40 packed pages we lead with the landmark report that if acted on will give hope to desperate prisoners who have been trapped in jail for up to 20 years for minor offences such as stealing a mobile phone – and who could finally get a release date under landmark new proposals.
Britain’s leading justice experts have issued a string of recommendations to finally end the “cruel experiment” of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) jail terms, which have left inmates languishing in prison for up to 22 times longer than their original sentence.
A panel led by Lord John Thomas, who was once Britain’s most senior judge, has urged the government to take “long overdue” action to restore hope to 2,614 inmates still trapped under the outlawed jail terms, which have been described as a “monstrous blot” on our justice system.