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: August 2025
(Next edition 4th September 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 announcement that specially trained staff in male prisons in England and Wales will be issued with Tasers as part of a new trial to clamp down on violence. The pilot comes as new figures show that more than £20m has been paid out in damages over five years to staff and prisoners who have been assaulted. Ministers say they will look at whether the electric stun guns should be more widely used after the trial this summer.