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PPRISONRISON SSEERRVICEVICE JOURPRISON SERVICE NAL OURNAALL J January 2014 No 211 This edition includes: Perrie Lectures 2013: Lesson for the Prison Service from the Mid-Staffs Inquiry Nick Hardwick Contraction in an Age of Expansion: an Operational Perspective Ian Mulholland A Convict Perspective Dr Andy Aresti Does Prison Size Matter? Jason Warr Prison Contraction in an Age of Expansion: Size Matters, but does ‘New’ equal ‘Better’ in Prison Design? Yvonne Jewkes Interview with The Venerable William Noblett CBE Perrie Lectures 2013 Martin Kettle Contraction in an age of expansion Contents 2 Editorial Comment Purpose and editorial arrangements Nick Hardwick is HM Chief Inspector 3 Perrie Lectures 2013 of Prisons. Lesson for the Prison Service from the Mid-Staffs Inquiry The Prison Service Journal is a peer reviewed journal published by HM Prison Service of England and Wales. Nick Hardwick Its purpose is to promote discussion on issues related to the work of the Prison Service, the wider criminal justice system and associated fields. It aims to present reliable information and a range of views about these issues. Ian Mulholland is Deputy Director of 14 Perrie Lectures 2013 The editor is responsible for the style and content of each edition, and for managing production and the Public Sector Prisons. Contraction in an Age of Expansion: Journal’s budget. The editor is supported by an editorial board — a body of volunteers all of whom have worked an Operational Perspective for the Prison Service in various capacities. The editorial board considers all articles submitted and decides the out - Ian Mulholland line and composition of each edition, although the editor retains an over-riding discretion in deciding which arti - cles are published and their precise length and language. Dr Andy Aresti is a lecturer at 19 Perrie Lectures 2013 University of Westminster. He is a former prisoner. A Convict Perspective From May 2011 each edition is available electronically from the website of the Centre for Crime Dr Andy Aresti and Justice Studies. This is available at http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/psj.html Circulation of editions and submission of articles Jason Warr is Programme Manager 25 Perrie Lectures 2013 and Research Co-ordinator at User Does Prison Size Matter? Voice and a PhD candidate at the Six editions of the Journal, printed at HMP Leyhill, are published each year with a circulation of approximately University of Cambridge. He was Jason Warr formerly a prisoner. 6,500 per edition. The editor welcomes articles which should be up to c.4,000 words and submitted by email to [email protected] or as hard copy and on disk to Prison Service Journal , c/o Print Shop Manager, HMP Leyhill, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 8HL. All other correspondence may also be sent to the Yvonne Jewkes is Professor of 31 Perrie Lectures 2013 Editor at this address or to [email protected] . Criminology at the University of Leicester. Prison Contraction in an Age of Expansion: Size Matters, but does ‘New’ equal ‘Better’ Footnotes are preferred to endnotes, which must be kept to a minimum. All articles are subject to peer in Prison Design? review and may be altered in accordance with house style. No payments are made for articles. Yvonne Jewkes Subscriptions Dr Linda Kjaer Minke, Assistant 37 A Study of Prisonization among Danish Prisoners Professor at University of Southern The Journal is distributed to every Prison Service establishment in England and Wales. Individual members of Denmark, Institute of Law. Dr Linda Kjaer Minke staff need not subscribe and can obtain free copies from their establishment. Subscriptions are invited from other individuals and bodies outside the Prison Service at the following rates, which include postage: United Kingdom single copy £7.00 one year’s subscription £40.00 (organisations or individuals in their professional capacity) Paul Addicott Editorial Board William Payne £35.00 (private individuals) HMP Pentonville Dr Jamie Bennett (Editor) Business Development Unit Dr Rachel Bell Dr David Scott HM & YOI Holloway Governor HMP Grendon & Springhill University of Central Lancashire Maggie Bolger Dr Karen Harrison Dr Basia Spalek Overseas Prison Service College, Newbold Revel University of Hull University of Birmingham Dr Alyson Brown Professor Yvonne Jewkes Christopher Stacey single copy £10.00 Edge Hill University University of Leicester Unlock Dr Ben Crewe Dr Helen Johnston Ray Taylor one year’s subscription £50.00 (organisations or individuals in their professional capacity) University of Cambridge University of Hull HMP Pentonville Paul Crossey Martin Kettle Dr Azrini Wahidin £40.00 (private individuals) National Operational Services Church of England Queens University, Belfast Eileen Fennerty-Lyons Dr Victoria Knight Mike Wheatley North West Regional Office De Montford University Directorate of Commissioning Dr Michael Fiddler Monica Lloyd Kim Workman Orders for subscriptions (and back copies which are charged at the single copy rate) should be sent with a University of Greenwich University of Birmingham Rethinking Crime and Punishment, NZ Steve Hall Alan Longwell Ray Hazzard and Steve Williams cheque made payable to ‘HM Prison Service’ to Prison Service Journal , c/o Print Shop Manager, HMP Leyhill, SERCO Northern Ireland Prison Service HMP Leyhill Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 8BT. Prison Service Journal Issue 211 Issue 211 Prison Service Journal January 2014 43 Sentencing Reform and Prisoner Mental Health Dr Paul Taylor is Lecturer in Criminology at University of Chester. Dr Paul Taylor and Siân Williams Siân Williams is a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Nurse Specialist, working in the Crisis Resolution Team at Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. 50 Book Review Dr Jamie Bennett is Governor of Crime and the Economy HMP Grendon and Springhill. Dr Jamie Bennett 51 Book Review Dr Rachel Campbell-Colquhoun The Evidence Enigma: Correctional Boot Camps HM and YOI Holloway. and Other Failures in Evidence-Based Policymaking Dr Rachel Campbell-Colquhoun 52 Book Review Paul Crossey is an Operational Prison Manager seconded to NOMS Life Imprisonment: An Unofficial Guide Headquarters. Paul Crossey 52 Book Review Dr Daniel Marshall, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Catch22 NCAS. Key Concepts in Youth Studies Visiting Scholar, Institute of Dr Daniel Marshall Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. 54 Book Review Bev Orton is a Fellow in the Criminology Department at the Women, Punishment and Social Justice. Human University of Hull. Rights and Penal Practices Bev Orton 56 Interview: The Venerable William Noblett CBE The Venerable William Noblett CBE was Chaplain General of HM Prison Martin Kettle Service between 2001 and 2011. He is interviewed by Martin Kettle who is a former prison manager currently Home Affairs Policy Advisor to the Church of England. Cover photograph by Brian Locklin, Health Care Officer, HMP Gartree. The Editorial Board wishes to make clear that the views expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the Prison Service. Printed at HMP Leyhill on 115 gsm Satimat 15% Recycled Silk Set in 10 on 13 pt Frutiger Light Circulation approx 6,000 ISSN 0300-3558 Crown Copyright 2014 Issue 211 Prison Service Journal 1 Editorial Comment Prison Service Journal has a long-standing partnership Hardwick, argues that lessons can be drawn that can be with the Perrie Lectures. Each year, articles are published applied to prisons in order to ensure that outcomes from based upon the annual lectures. This is a partnership of prisoners are protected in an environment characterised by which the Prison Service Journal is proud. fluidity, risk and uncertainty. Ian Mulholland, Deputy The Perrie Lectures is an annual event which has the Director of Public Sector Prisons, considers the purpose of stimulating dialogue between criminal justice Benchmarking programme, aimed at providing a organisations, the voluntary sector and all those with an structured approach to distributing reduced resources academic, legal or practical interest in offenders and their amongst prisons. He argues that this programme is being families. It is hoped that the event will contribute towards taken forward in order to respond to the challenging improving the care of offenders, and advancing penal economic environment in a way that is systematic, sensitive policy, in its broadest sense. The Lectures are named in to local pressures and attuned to the operational risks. honour of Bill Perrie, who retired from the Prison Service in The third lecture comes from Andy Aresti, an 1978. He worked as a prison governor for 32 years, latterly academic who formerly served a prison sentence and is a at HMPs Hull, Long Lartin, and Birmingham. He was noted founding member of the British Convict Criminology for his contribution to the development of hostels, working movement. He adopts a critical perspective, arguing that out schemes, and regimes for long term prisoners. changes to prisons over recent decades have been driven The 2013 Lectures took the title of ‘Contraction in an by commercial imperatives and economic rationality. The age of expansion’. As the speakers illustrate, this question consequences of this, he suggests, is the loss of a human may be approached from a number of different quality in the prison and post-prison world that makes it perspectives. In particular, it may be asked what is difficult for those who have experienced prison to expanding and what is contracting? It may be argued that negotiate and sustain new identities that help them desist the prison population is expanding and remains at a from crime. historically high level, albeit that it has ameliorated to a The final two lectures explore the issues of prison limited degree in recent months. It may be argued that it is architecture, design and size. Jason Warr, of User Voice and the size of prisons that are expanding, with larger prisons himself a former prisoner, offers a polemic critique of larger such as HMP Oakwood, replacing smaller sometimes prisons.