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Prison Law Index 2025 – Contents

Prison Law is a hugely important subject, affecting the rights and liberties of over 88,000 people in prison every single day – yet its sources are spread around a plethora of places from statute, to statutory instruments, prison service orders, prison service instructions, advice to governors, circular instructions, standing orders and the latest versions ‘Policy Frameworks’….. and that is where Prison Law Index finds its focus because it brings all those sources together within the pages of a single book!

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It’s unique A-Z subject list puts all the relevant rules and case law in one easy place.

It’s compiled by a leading Prison Law Solicitors from Reece Thomas Watson, and Prison Law Barristers from No.5 Chambers led by Philip Rule KC.

It contains the Prison Rules and the Parole Board Rules (July 2024) and more.

And it lists all current Prison Service Orders, latest Instructions and Policy Frameworks.

It also has an extra section on Criminal Appeals.

CONTENTS

The Editor, 5

Acknowledgements, 5

Introduction by Reece Thomas Watson Solicitors, 6

The Prison Rules 1999 – amended and correct to 1st July 2024, 7

The Parole System, Dean Kingham, Solicitor, Reece Thomas Watson, 33

The Parole Board Rules 2019 amended and correct to 1st July 2024, 39

Parole Board Reconsideration Mechanism, 56

Policy Frameworks, 57

Prison Service Instructions, 80

Prison Service Orders, 83

A-Z Index, 73-242

Access to Justice
Accommodation
Accredited Offending Behaviour Programmes
Adjudications
Advances, cash
After Care (see also Housing and Homelessness)
Aims ( also Purpose of Prison)
Alcohol and tobacco
Allocation ( also Categorisation and Allocation)
Alternative medicine, treatments in prison
Articles, prohibited see Prohibited articles
Assaults – also Civil Claims
Assisted prison visits scheme 5/1998
Association, removal from (also Attendance
Awards see Performance recognition
Bail
Banking
Beds and bedding
Benefits Advice for Prisoners
Beverage and breakfast packs
Bonuses – see Performance recognition
Buildings
Bullying
CARATS see Drugs
Categorisation and Allocation
Category A prisoners
Catering services
Cell sharing risk assessment
Cellular confinement
Census
Chief Inspector of Prisons
Child protection
Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) Childcare
Children
Civil Actions Against the Prison and/or Secretary of State
Civil Justice System, Reform
Civil Partnerships ( also Marriage of Prisoners)
Civil Proceedings
Civil prisoners see Prisoners – civil
Classification ( also Remand Prisoners)
Clinical services for Substance Misusers
Close Supervision Centres
Closed circuit television
Clothing
Communications of prisoners
Community visits,
Compassionate Grounds, Release
Complaints Procedure (see also Requests and Complaints)
Complementary and alternative (medical) treatments in prison Compulsory testing for controlled drugs see under Drugs
Computers
Conduct see Discipline
Confinement
Confiscation Orders
Contacts, Outside, of Prisoners
Contracted out prisons, parts of prisons and functions PR 82-84
Contracted out young offender institutions, parts & functions YOI 86-88
Contracting out of court escort services
Control & Restraint – see Restraint
Crime & disorder act 1998
Criminal Cases Review Commission Criminal evidence (amendment) act 1997
Criminal justice act
Curfew, prisoners, home detention Custodial care NVQ levels 2 & 3
Custodians of child protection registers
Custody outside a young offender institution YOI 45
Custody outside prison
Damages Claims
Dangerous inmates
Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD)
Data protection
Deaths in Custody
Dedicated search teams
Defaulters, securing release of
Delegation by governor
Denying Guilt – see Maintaining Innocence
Dental services for prisoners, Deportation
Diabetes
Directorate of Operations (North) Briefing Unit 37/1997
Disabled Prisoners
Discharge of Prisoners
Discipline (see also Adjudications see also Segregation)
Disinfecting tablets
Display screen equipment
Disruptive prisoners,
DNA Testing
Dogs
Drugs
Early Release & Parole see Parole
Earnings, prisoners’
Education (see also Open University)
Education, physical see Physical education
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) and Identity (ID) for bank account applications by young people
Eggs
Electronic monitoring and drug testing on licence 13/2001
Emergencies
End of custody licence see Release
Enterprise and work Standard (0200)
Enterprise material funding
Entrepreneurial activities
Escape, assisting prisoner to
Escorted absences for cat. C life sentence prisoners
Escorts
Estate, Prison Service 33/1999
Ethnic monitoring classification Expenses
Extended Sentences
Ex-gratia payments
Facilities
Families, Prisoners’
Fines
Fire Safety
Fitness strategy
Fixed Term Recall
Flexible working hours
Food
Force, use of (see also Disruptive prisoners)
Foreign Nationals
Forfeiture of remission
Fraud, theft and irregularity Freemason membership,
Games consoles,
Gender
Gifts
Girocheques
Gloves, latex, use of
Grants, discharge see Discharge grants
Handcuffing
Hair cutting service
Health and Safety
Health Services for Prisoners
Home Detention Curfew
Hospitality see Gifts
Householders’ allowance, prisoners’
Housing Needs and Homelessness (see also Resettlement)
Human Rights
Hygiene
Identification of prison staff when on duty PSO 8805
Illness or death
Illnesses and conditions PR 21
Immigration and Foreign Nationals
Immigration act detainees,
Imprisonment for Public Protection – see “Lifers”
Incentives & Earned Privileges
Incident Management Manual
Income and receipts
Independent Monitoring Boards
Induction see Prisoner induction
Industrial relations Standard (0200)
Infections, zoonotic PSO 3805
Information for staff
Information technology
Information about Prisoners
Information to Prisoners
Inmates see Prisoners
Instructions see Prison Service Orders and Instructions
Insurance
Intensive development scheme 5/2004
Interception of communication
Internal communications
Internet
Interviews, police see Police interviews
Investigations
IPP – see “Lifers”
“Judge at your gate”
Judicial Review Procedure
Justice, right of to visit prison
Juveniles see Children see also Young offenders
Key performance indicators and key performance targets – sources and calculations
Laundry equipment
Legal advice & services for Prison Service staff
Legal advisors and courts, visits and correspondence to inmates (see also Access to Justice)
Legal services & Bail
Letters, inmates’ personal (see Prisoners’ Correspondence)
Libraries, Prison
Licence Conditions – see Release, Early – Licence Conditions
Licences for showing DVD/video films in prisons
LIDS data entry
Lifers (Life Sentence / IPP Prisoners)
Indeterminate Sentence Manual
Litigants
Lodging allowance, prisoners
Losses, special payments and compensation
Magistrates’ training visits to Prison Service establishments
Mailboxes
Maintaining Innocence
Maintaining Order in Prisons (see also Segregation)
Maintenance (Technical Order) Marriage (see also Civil Partnerships)
Media (see also Communications, see also Human Rights – Article 10)
Medical attention (see also Health Services for Prisoners)
Medical officers, age retirement
Memory sticks see Removable media
Mental Health
Mother & Baby Units
Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA)
Muslims, Shi’a, religious provision NAME CHANGE see requests from prisoners to change their name
National Insurance
National population census
Newspaper fund
Newspapers, communal
Nursing grades,
OASys – see Offender Assessment and Sentence Management
Observation of prisoners by CCTV
Occupational health see Health and safety
Offence type categories (for risk predictor)
Offences Against Discipline see under Discipline
Offender Assessment and Sentence Management (see also Sentence Planning)
Offending behaviour programmes, accredited (see Accredited Offending Behaviour Programmes)
Officers see Prison officers
Older prisoners – see Health services for prisoners
Open Air, Time in the
Open Government: the code of practice on access to government information
Open Estate see Categorisation and Allocation
Open University
Operational support grades
Oral Hearings
Order and discipline see Discipline
Orders see Prison Service Orders and Instructions
Organists
Outside contacts see Contacts, outside
Outturn
Overtime checklist
Packaging
Painful tests ACT 17
Parole (see also Recalled Prisoners)
Pay, inmates’ see Work, inmates’
Payments
Payroll
PCL-R see Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder
P.E. equipment
Pension records
Performance management
Performance recognition
Performance standards
Personal injury compensation
Persons having access to a prison see Visitors
Persons unlawfully at large see Unlawfully at Large
Pharmacy services for prisoners 
Photograph
Physical Education
PIES
Police and security matters
Police interviews PR 36
Police National Computer
Police
Population census see National population census
Postage checklist
Post
Post incident care for staff
Prepayments
Prison Enterprises
Prison estate
Prison Officers
Prison Service Orders & Instructions
Prison Service Union
Prison Shop
Prisoner Communications (see also Human Rights – Article 10, see also Media) (see also Visits)
Prisoner escort record form, Prisoner Induction
Prisoners
Prisoners’ discharge grants see Discharge grants
Prisoners’ earnings – see Earnings, prisoners
Prisoners’ Information Book
Prisoners’ lodging allowances see Lodging allowances
Prisoners’ property see Property, prisoners’
Prisoners’ travel see Travel, prisoners’
Prisons
Prisons Ombudsman
Private cash see Cash, private
Privileges ( Incentives and Earned Privileges)
Production of prisoners
Professional standards
Prohibited articles (see also Property, prisoners’)
Prolific and Other Priority Offenders
Property- Prisoners’
Propriety, regularity and value for money
Prospective award of additional days
Protected witness units
Provision of court transcripts Psychologists, prison
Public
Public records see Records
Public Relations
PUMIS PSO 7100
Purpose of prison
Race Relations
Racial offences
Radiation – safety procedures for X-ray equipment
Recalled prisoners (and Fixed Term Recall and see also CJA 1991 Prisoner)
Receipts see Income and receipts
Reception Procedures
Recognisances
Record and Photograph
Records, public
Regime
Regime monitoring
Release Dates – see Sentence Calculation
Release, Early
Release of defaulters, securing
Release on Temporary Licence
(and Escorted absences)
Release of dangerous inmates see Dangerous inmates
Religion
Remand Prisoners
Remand centres
Remission
Removable media
Removal from association see Association, removal from
Repatriation 35/2008
Reporting wrongdoing
Representations
Requests and Complaints
Requests from Prisoners to Change Their Name
Research
Resettlement
Restraints
Restrictions on handing in of property
Retail sales outlets
Retention of accounting documents
Rewards see Performance recognition
Rights of prisoners charged
Risk assessment of prisoners
Risk/fraud management
Rules, prison and YOI
Safer custody – see Suicide
Safer prisons
Safety of Parole Board & BoV members
Samaritans, the role of
Search
Secretary of State
Secure training centres
Security
Security & standards audit action plans
Security arrangements for young offenders
Security awareness training
Security category, reviews, category A prisoners
Security manual
Self care products
Segregation units
Selection, delegation 
Self assessment for income tax
Sentence Calculation
Sentence Management and Planning
Sex Offenders
Shadow KPI
Shi’a Muslims, religious provision – see Religion
Shops, prison
Short term prisoners, recall to prison
Sleeping accommodation – see Accommodation
Smoking
Special bonus scheme
Sponsorship
Staff handbook, Prison Service
Staff, identification see Identification of prison staff when on duty
Standards Manual
Standards audit
Submission of requests/complaints, time limits see Requests and complaints
Suggestion schemes
Suicide and Self-Harm (see also Deaths in Custody)
Supply estimates
Tax credits and prisoners
Tax Liaison Officer
Taxation
Taxes Management Act 1970
Technical manual
Telephone accounts
Telephones
Television, in-cell
Temporary confinement see Confinement, temporary
Temporary release see Release on temporary licence
Tenders
Terminally ill prisoners, release see Compassionate grounds
Termination of services
Therapeutic Communities, Democratic
Theft see Fraud, theft and irregularity and their investigation
Throughcare,
Time limits for submission of requests/complaints see Requests and complaints
Time in the open air
Tobacco
Transfer of prisoners
Transport
Transsexual staff gender reassignment
Transsexual Prisoners
Travel and subsistence
Travel restriction orders
Treatment of Prisoners
Uniforms
Unlawfully at Large (see also sentence calculation)
Union, Prison Service, provision of facilities to individual members
Unsentenced prisoners
Use of force see Force, use of
Vehicles, control of see Control of persons and vehicles
Vehicles, use on official business see Travel and subsistence
Victims
Video links between magistrates’ courts and local prisons
Visual display units see Display screen equipment health and safety issues
Viewing – of prisons
Violence Reduction
Virement
Vision, Prison Service:
Visitors (see also Searches)
Visitors, boards of see Boards of visitors
Visits (see also Visitors and see also Searches)
Voluntary and community sector
Voluntary drug testing see Drugs
Voting Provisions for Prisoners
Waste
Water, gas and electricity accounts
Welfare fund
Welfare of prisoners
Welfare to work
Women prisoners and Mother and Baby Units
Woodcock recommendation
Work, Inmates
YOI Rules
Zoonotic infections

Criminal Appeals, 249-256

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