• Home /
• Statewatch Database /
• BRICKS OF SHAME: BRITAIN'S PRISONS

BRICKS OF SHAME: BRITAIN'S PRISONS

01 January 1991

BRICKS OF SHAME: BRITAIN'S PRISONS
refdoc August=1991

BOOKS/PAMPHLETS , User Ref = 343.81 , Acc Date = 01-Dec-87
V Stern
Penguin, 1987 309pp, tables RB45751

Examines in detail the everyday conditions of life of the average
prisoner and the prison staff. Considers progressive developments
in prison systems abroad and analyses the political pressures
behind the developments of the last twenty years. Suggests steps
which need to be taken for our prisons to be safer, more humane
and less overcrowded. The author, who is Director of the National
Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders also
looks at what prison is for, who is locked up and the use of
imprisonment by the courts.

United Kingdom, statistics, bail, crime, building, Community
Service Orders, female, Home Office, judges, police, assault,
probation, visits, visitors

Held by the Research Library at the London Research Centre,
Parliament House, 81 Black Prince Road, London SE1 7SZ, UK.
Tel:071-627-9666 Fax:071-627-9674. Copies of articles are
available by post - please contact the address/phone above for
cost and a copyright declaration from. Books, pamphlets and other
items are available through the inter-library loan scheme.