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Click here for a link to the Home Office Website for Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons where you can download a PDF file of the thematic review of the care and support of prisoners with mental health needs (October 2007).
New Sainsbury's Centre for Mental Health (November 2007) paper which looks at ways in which this could be achieved and makes policy recommendations to help the NHS build up a primary care mental health service in every English prison. Download PDF here.
Ian Loader (professor of criminology at University of Oxford) writes a piece for the Guardian (November 2007) entitiled, 'We lock people up with no thought and with little effect.'
Lord Carter's Review of Prisons, December 2007. Download PDF here.
Mental Health Primary Care in Prison - website which is a guide to mental ill health in adults and adolescents in prison and young offender institutions,produced for HM Prison Service by the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre. Downloadable, comprehensive guide to working with offenders within the prison system.
Nacro - National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. The crime reducing charity: 'changing lives, reducing crime'.
Prison Reform Trust - 'creating a just, humane and effective penal system'
The Howard League for Penal Reform - The oldest penal reform charity in the UK
National Offender Management Service - Ministry of Justice site. 'Working together to reduce re-offending'.
Prison Health Research Network - Department of Health funded initiative to identify research and develop priorities in prison healthcare
prisons.org.uk - Definitive independent web site dedicated to coverage of the penal system of England and Wales
International Centre for Prison Studies - University of London website which aims to make available results of its research
the Big Give - Counselling in Prison - charity set up to provide formal, professional generic counselling and psychotherapy to people in custody suffering mental distress, psychological pain and who are vulnerable to harming themselves.
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
The Critical Psychiatry Website - dynamic, stimulating and wide-ranging website which does what it says and more. Highly recommended.
British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
We Need To Talk - Campaign by five leading mental health organisations to increase investment in and widen access to psychological therapies on the NHS
Mankind UK - A charitable support and resource service for men who have been sexually abused, assaulted or raped
21st Century Social Work. Reducing Re-offending: Key Practice Skills
Burnett, R. and Batchelor, S. and McNeill, F. (2006) - excellent report detailing the effective practice of counselling and psychotherapy in order to reduce reoffending.
Offender Mental Care Pathway - Department of Health and NHS report presenting valuable best practice templates to guide providers and commissioners of mental health services for those involved in the criminal justice system. Intended to guide the practice of people who directly deliver services, and support decision making for those who commission them. (PDF file)
Changing the Outlook - A Department of Health and HMPrison services strategy for developing and modernising mental health services in prisons. (PDF file)
Revolving Doors - the UK's only charity dedicated to improving the lives of people with common mental health problems who have been arrested or imprisoned.
Smart Justice - website of organisation which campaigns for more alternatives to custody and promotes initiatives that are effective in changing offenders' behaviour
Clinks - supporting voluntary organisations that work with offenders and their families
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