BSC Prison Research Network

News and events from the British Society of Criminology - Prison Research Network. DM for information on joining us!

[BSC Prison Research Network @BSC_PRN]

We are delighted to host Dr Kate Herrity for a super interesting and thought-provoking session exploring the sensory dimensions of prison life. Join us on the 25/11/25
Get your free tickets here
https://t.co/4rqndQuGwB

[BSC Prison Research Network @BSC_PRN]

We are delighted to host Dr Kate Herrity for a super interesting and thought-provoking session exploring the sensory dimensions of prison life.
For more information and free tickets, click the link below.
https://t.co/Gh21TZdoJG
#prison #research #free-event

[Prison Radio Association @PrisonRadioUK]

🎧 What is politics, and why are prisons so vulnerable in the hands of politicians?

Listen to @RoryStewartUK deliver the 2023 @LongfordTrust Lecture on our special Christmas edition of The Secret Life of Prisons podcast.

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[The Howard League @TheHowardLeague]

“I spoke to one man who said he had a two-year IPP and has been in for 17 years. He just said I have accepted that I’m going to die in here." - said our Chief Executive, Andrea Coomber KC (Hon.).

🎧 Listen to @Trapped_Pod 'The IPP Prisoner Scandal' here: https://t.co/F0inOAtYTW

[HMI Prisons @HMIPrisonsnews]

READ the @Independent's interview with @charlie_taylor6 "Overcrowding is a ticking time bomb".

https://t.co/kwftIO5Jva

[BSC Prison Research Network @BSC_PRN]

@Dee0871 Sorry to hear this Dave. Sending our thoughts and prayers

[BSC Prison Research Network @BSC_PRN]

Merry Christmas everyone.

[The Howard League @TheHowardLeague]

🎄 New on the blog: Christmas in prison.

No one knows what it is like to spend the holiday period in prison better than those who have experienced it. We asked three men who have spent Christmas inside to describe what they remember: https://t.co/ubAc04Hfgn

#ChristmasInPrison

[UoNSociology @UoNSociology]

Professors Stephen Farrall and Dr Jason Warr have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Grant to explore the processes of how and why people from various ethnic background cease offending.
More information here: https://t.co/ktFgU0e0ra

[Asylum Matters @AsylumMatters]

We've signed this letter calling for the immediate closure of #BibbyStockholm

The barge is no place to accommodate people who have fled violence, persecution, and torture, many of whom are traumatised and isolated.

#CommunitiesNotCamps

https://t.co/MfSiqMsklb

[Sarah Page SFHEA @SarahPa27928625]

Please read if you are working in criminal justice. Important recommendations for working with women.

[Dr Lucy Baldwin @LucyBaldwin08]

A labour of love for us (pardon the pun) for @midwifeteacher & I the 1st book on this important topic in the UK (unbelievably !) published now please order / review https://t.co/pEgvlxnkPC…
@HmppsInsights @we_level_up @bsc_wccjn @dmu @MMHAlliance @womenbeywalls @paula_harriott

[Yvonne Jewkes @YvonneJewkes]

Visited Ila Prison with@ugelvik⁩ & saw the new unit for men who came from subterranean G-wing to this light, bright well-designed house. Some spent years in solitary. Gaby, the officer, said the envt was making them better. “It’s so simple” she said. https://t.co/UQdxyXQBIl

[Prison Reform Trust @PRTuk]

Ahead of next Monday's @UKHouseofLords second reading stage debate on the Victims and Prisoners Bill, we've just published our briefing to assist peers.
The bill includes important measures for people serving the IPP sentence. Read the briefing ⤵️
https://t.co/CEERKMYAK0

[HMI Prisons @HMIPrisonsnews]

LISTEN to @charlietaylor_06 talk to @AgnesChambre on @politico's Westminster Insider podcast, 'How did Britain's prisons go so wrong?'
https://t.co/zvody6RVby via @acast

[BSC Prison Research Network @BSC_PRN]

@SJacques83 @SarahPlimley We welcome anyone and everyone to our events, will be great to see you :)

[BSC Prison Research Network @BSC_PRN]

What do you think the BSC Prison Research Network should focus on for 2024?

[Centre for Crim & CJ @cccjhull]

Lecturer in Criminology at University of Hull - deadline for applications 17/12/23! Apply to join our fab team of researchers ⁦@faceofresearch⁩ ⁦@BritSocCrim⁩ #criminology https://t.co/HYjtIjw6PY

[Probation Institute @ProbInstitute]

In PQ30, the study by @weaver_beth @weeneens and Trish McCulloch focuses on young adults’ experiences and their visions of social justice in order to influence more socially just responses from our welfare and justice services. https://t.co/a9dsDzMGBc

[BSC Prison Research Network @BSC_PRN]

Now this looks an amazing opportunity!

[Katharina Swirak @kswirak]

Any postdocs out there who want to work with me &funded Phd student @uccsoc for 4 years on prison education, penal abolitionist organising, penal voluntary sector, critical crim - please get in touch!!!! Please RT @maggieoneill9 @NicolaCarr @criminology
https://t.co/2axtAaWWLi

[The Howard League @TheHowardLeague]

People serving IPP sentences write to us all the time, describing the despair that comes with a sentence with no end.

More must be done to help the almost 3,000 people who remain in prison more than a decade after the IPP sentence was abolished.
https://t.co/eRmJp8ZPYU

[Prison Radio Association @PrisonRadioUK]

🎧 OUT NOW!

Brand new series of the Secret Life Of Prisons #podcast starts today!

Paula had a hand in developing the brilliant new series of *Time* on @BBCiPlayer. Find out which bits were hers, as she and Phil catch up with writers Jimmy McGovern and @WriterHBlack.

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