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: March 2025

(Next edition 9th April 2025)
In this month’s 40 packed pages we lead with the Parole Board directing the release of a Category A life sentence prisoner who was convicted of the notorious Essex Boys murders – a crime he has always denied being involved in.
 
This case raises an important question: are Category A prisoners being unfairly held in the highest possible security category by HM Prison and Probation Service because by default they err too much, for too long, on the side of caution?
How can a person HMPPS considers must be kept in Category A because their escape would be highly dangerous to the State on one hand, at the same time be considered by the Parole Board to be of such low risk to the public that they are safe to be released on the other?
 
How, we ask, can those two opposing positions be reconciled in a rational way?

 

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