Welcome to PrisonerActionNet Join over 3000 practitioners working with prisoners, young offenders and ex-offenders to reduce reoffending in innovative ways including strengthening positive identity, relationships and re-integration in the community.
What does your job involve? Working with learners who have been identified as having a specific learning difficulty and facilitating the Toe by Toe Reading Scheme.
What are your current top priorities? Working towards my MA.
What inspires you? Other colleagues working in the field of SpLd – and more importantly… (more…)
Prisoners performing songs and playing music as part of a ‘Live at the Lighthouse’ event (more…)
By Dr Tony Munton, Managing Director of Matrix Evidence. This briefing aims to set out the priorities for getting measurement and evaluation right in the context of the new method of commissioning public services: Payment by Results (PbR). It may… (more…)
The Good Prison Awards for holistic achievement by prisons and young offenders institutions in delivering person-centred interventions that enhance offenders’ positive identity, relationships and capabilities were presented at an awards event attended by over 80 practitoners from the prison service, criminal justice system and third sector at the Clink Restaurant, HMP High Down on 27 November 2012 (more…)
MPACT is a pilot intervention at HMP and YOI Parc that takes a ‘whole family’ approach to substance misuse and the effect it has on children. It looks at the effect on family life of the substance misuse, and the repercussions of the imprisonment of the father, as well as considering the support he needs… (more…)
Many prisoners are deeply shocked and even traumatized by the idea and the experience of going into prison. They need comfort and consolation for what… (more…)
This PrisonerActionNet conference – presented by Lemos&Crane working with The Monument Trust – will set out a new… (more…)
World Book Night gives away over a million free books to the public to promote the love of reading. Lemos&Crane – through its PrisonerActionNet project – is a World Book… (more…)
PrisonerActionNet is commissioned by The Monument Trust, and is based on research conducted by Lemos&Crane in conjunction with CLINKS, the national membership body for voluntary and community organisations in the criminal justice system.