Prison – a place of last resort
The Prison Reform Trust is a leading independent charity working to create a just, humane and effective penal system. It produces information, conducts applied research and effects policy leverage. It provides the secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Penal Affairs Group. The Prison Reform Trust’s advice and information service responds to over 5000 prisoners and their families each year. The charity has a good track record of achieving policy and practice change and, in the last five years, has helped to reduce child imprisonment by 40% in England and Wales.
Juliet Lyon CBE is director of the Prison Reform Trust, secretary general of Penal Reform International and vice president of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Voted Britain’s ‘Most Admired Charity Chief Executive’ in 2011, previously Juliet worked in education, mental health and justice.