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: January 2025
(Next edition 5th February 2025)
Enhanced members can view recent past and current editions in our Archive, as pdf documents.
In the 40+ packed pages of our January 2025 edition we lead with details of the major Inquiry into ‘Drugs in Prison’ launched by the House of Commons Justice Select Committee – who invite the views of prisoners and prison staff and the public on tackling this pernicious problem that leads to bullying, self-harm, assaults, and deaths in our prisons.
View the January 2025 and Recent Archived Editions!
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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!