Converse – For 17 years the largest circulation national monthly Newspaper for the Prisons of England and 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 90 prisons on 2,500 inmate offline laptops too!
Latest edition: October 2024
(Next edition 6th November 2024)
Enhanced members can view recent past and current editions in our Archive, as pdf documents.
In the 40 packed pages of our October 2024 edition we lead with the scathing report from the National Independent Monitoring Board on the constant and perennial loss of prisoners’ personal property which, despite years of complaints and a Policy Framework designed to rectify the issues, has not improved; how can we send men to the Moon and yet not manage to get a bag of property from one side of London to the other without losing it?
This month we also cover
- The Prisons Handbook 2025 – published this month!
- Some prisoners have been released without tag
- Prisons Inspectorate say this is ‘a desperate time for prisons’
- Chelmsford prisoner awarded 5 million after kitchen knife attack
- IPP prisoners jailed indefinitely ‘could they be resentenced’?
- The Mount prison officer jailed for misconduct
- Express solicitors, helping injured people
- Prison Ombudsman’s latest confirmed deaths in custody
- Reece Thomas Watson, advocates for justice
- Styal prison annual report published
- Compensation in close supervision centre case
- Cold cases could be solved using artificial intelligence
- The Mount prison, third critical death report in three months
- Carrington’s solicitors officially the largest prison law practice in the country
- Detective guilty of selling drugs back to dealers
- Wealstun prison annual report published
- The Cell Companion 2025 available for purchase now
- Readers letters on women prisoners and recalled inmates
- Latest updated prison service instructions orders and policy frameworks
- Liverpool prison annual report published
- The justice system is seized up – we have to unblock it says JSC chair
- Inside Japan’s biggest prison home to 100s of old men
- Swaleside drone deliveries of drugs is a major problem
- Prisons Inspectorate annual report published
- Jailed police officer who used dead people’s bank accounts to go shopping
- Prison Law Index 2025 available for purchase now
- Contingency plans implemented as prison construction firm goes bust
- Real stories of prisoners’ children shared in play
- Bid to expand car park next to Lincoln prison
- National prison radio October broadcast schedule
- Berwyn prison staff attack prisoner get extra two years
- CCRC outreach team visits prisons
- And lots more too….
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