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01 December 1995

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The reduction of home leave and temporary release opportunities, Penal Affairs Consortium (February) 1995. Concludes that the 40% reduction in home leave announced by the Home Secretary is a retrograde step.

Prison Watch press release No. 110 (29.1.95.). On Michelle Pearson who committed suicide in HMP Newhall in July 1994.

Explaining reconviction rates: a critical analysis Charles Lloyd George Mair & Mike Hough. Research Findings No 12 (Home office Research & Statistics Department) September 1994. This report describes a comparative study of reconviction rates.

Housing benefit and prisoners. Penal Affairs Consortium February 1995. pp3. Available from 169 Clapham Road London SW9 0PU. On the announcement at the 1994 Conservative Party conference that the practice of using housing benefit to meet rent payments of convicted prisoners serving up to a year in custody would be ended.

Statistics of mentally disordered offenders: England and Wales 1993. Home Office Statistical Bulletin 01/95 (22.1.95.).

Prisons and prisoners: special edition. Research Bulletin no 36

Home Office Research and Statistics Department. Ten articles including ones on: the National Prison Survey 1991 The Prison Disciplinary System and Where do prisoners come from?

Prison overcrowding. Penal Affairs Consortium March 1995 6 pages free. Argues that a legal limit should be set for the maximum number of prisoners to be held by each prison. In December 1992 there were 40 606 people in prison on 10 March 1995 there were 51 072. From: Penal Affairs Consortium c/o 169 Clapham Road London SW9 0PU.

Boot camps do not reduce offending: Penal Affairs Consortium, 160 Clapham Road London SW9 0PU. March 1995 4 pages.

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