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: June 2025
(Next edition 7th July 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 reforms that the Government insist will end the prison crisis the government inherited and which threatens the complete breakdown of law and order on Britain’s streets – announced by the Lord Chancellor, Shabana Mahmood on 22nd May.
The sweeping review, published by former Justice Secretary David Gauke also on 22nd May, recommends comprehensively overhaul sentencing – ensuring jails never run out of space again and dangerous offenders can be kept off the streets. The majority of the recommendations have been accepted today in principle – with a Sentencing Bill due in the coming months.
The reforms will put public protection and cutting crime at the heart of the justice system and ensure the public is never put at risk again from the threat of prisons running out of space and police unable to make arrests.