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Blog: Too difficult becomes possible?

Blog

17 Feb 2016

Rachel O'Brien

Rachel O’Brien explores why now might be the right time to explore new, devolved forms of prison governance.

Building a rehabilitation culture

Report

05 Jun 2013

This new report argues that prisons will continue to struggle to rehabilitate offenders unless they are able to develop stronger, more positive links with their communities and economies.

Government’s rehabilitation revolution on knife-edge

Press release

05 Nov 2011

The government's proposals for working prisons risk becoming a good idea turned bad, according to a report out by the RSA. The report, RSA Transitions, is published at the start of the bidding process for new contracts worth £2.5bn for running nine UK prisons.

RSA Transitions: a social enterprise approach to prison and rehabilitation

Report

01 Nov 2011

The government's proposals for working prisons risk becoming a good idea turned bad. Our pamphlet, RSA Transitions, is published at the start of the bidding process for new contracts worth £2.5 billion for running nine UK prisons.

The Learning Prison report

Report

29 Dec 2010

The Learning Prison suggests key principles for reform, central to which is that of seeing prisons as a core public service that bene!ts us all through rehabilitation as well as incarceration.