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: April 2025

(Next edition 7th May 2025)
In this month’s 40 packed pages we lead with HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor’s review of the often chaotic Prison Applications (Request/Complaints) process that prisoners must use to get even basic things done – and of which the Chief Inspector concluded that much-needed reform was ‘easier said than done’.
On the face of it, to those unfamiliar with prison life, the wing application may not seem that important but key issues, including violence and self-harm, can result in extreme and devastating outcomes to what were once much smaller issues. At one prison recently prisoners told me very high levels of violence were caused by drugs and debt, but also a failure of staff to deal with even basic requests. Modern technology such as in-cell laptops has generally been good, letting prisoners make applications and also keep in touch with their loved ones and up to date with news within the prison – but while electronic application systems, such as kiosks or in-cell laptops, provide better tracking than paper application systems, showing when requests are made and replied to, even these systems have problems and the replies are often of poor quality and the use of in-cell laptops has not been helped by silly rules about how often applications can be made or the detail that can be included. 

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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!

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