Report to the Department of Health and Ministry of Justice: Executive Summary: Review of Prison-Based Drug Treatment Funding: Final Report, December 2007 / Ministry of Justice, 17 March 2008
PDF - http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/prison-drug-review.pdf
"This is the final report to the Department of Health and Ministry of Justice from a review of how existing resources for drug treatment in prisons could be used more effectively."

[USA] Improving Correctional Officer Safety: Reducing Inmate Weapons / NCJRS, December 2007
PDF - http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/220485.pdf
Project Director: Paul J. Biermann

Prison Governors' Association AGM / Ministry of Justice, 4 October 2007
http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/sp041007a.htm
"Jack Straw's speech to the Prison Governors' Association annual conference,"

[Scotland] NO ONE KNOWS: Identifying and supporting prisoners with learning difficulties and learning disabilities: the views of prison staff / Prison Reform Trust, September 2007
PDF - http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/temp/FinalspNOKspScotlandsplo-res.pdf
Nancy Loucks with Talbot Jenny

[USA] When the “never happens” happens to you, Part I / Corrections.com, 18 July 2007
http://www.corrections.com/news/article?articleid=16214
Tracy E. Barnhart
"When I was first working in a maximum security juvenile prison I wanted information on what to do if taken hostage by inmates. This was a taboo concept, and as I have found during my research is taboo across the correctional society. It is like a two hundred pound gorilla in the room; everybody knows it’s there but nobody wants to talk about it."

Case study: HM Prison Service / Computing, 28 June 2007
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2193038/case-study-hm-prison-service
Linda More
"With 128 prisons, each with its own procurement team, and a total of 397 staff using mostly paper-based systems, HM Prison Service was ready for a major overhaul of its purchasing processes."

Report on a full announced inspection of HMP/YOI Peterborough (men) : 9-13 October 2006 : by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons / HMI Prisons, 18 April 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4spgn

Report on a full announced inspection of HMP/YOI Peterborough (women) : 2-6 October 2006 : by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons / HMI Prisons, 18 April 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4spgm

Report on an announced inspection of HMP Camp Hill : 7-11 August 2006 : by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons / HMI Prisons, 4 April 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4spfg

Report on an announced inspection of HMYOI Lancaster Farms: 2-6 October 2006 : by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons / HMI Prisons, 11 April 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4spff

Report on an unannounced short follow-up inspection of HMP Wymott : 30 October-1 November 2006 : by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons / HMI Prisons, 13 April 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4spfe

Report on an unannounced short follow-up inspection of HMP Grendon : 31 October-2 November 2006 : by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons / HMI Prisons, 17 April 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4spes

Corporate Plan : 2007–2008 to 2011–2012 : Business Plan : 2007–2008 / HM Prison Service, 15 March 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4rxjd

Kirk bid to run prison units / Herald, 6 Mar 2007
http://digbig.com/4rskg
DOUGLAS FRASER
"THE Church of Scotland could take over parts of the country's beleaguered jail system under radical reforms. Kirk managers would run specialist prison wings or remand units on behalf of the state, according to proposals in a report being sent to the church's general assembly in May which seeks to change public opinions on crime and punishment. A major influence on the planning is the Very Rev Andrew McLellan, a former Kirk moderator and now Scotland's chief inspector of prisons, who has voiced increasing frustration that jail conditions are unacceptable."

The Kirk and prison / Herald, 6 Mar 2007
http://digbig.com/4rskh
EDITORIAL COMMENT
"What is the purpose of prison? It might surprise and, indeed, disappoint that Andrew McLellan should feel the need to continue to address this question in his fifth year as chief inspector of prisons. If he does not know by now, what hope is there of the rest of us finding the answer? But it is to Dr McLellan's credit that he continues to challenge conventional notions of what prison should be about. His latest intervention is part of a wider contribution to the debate."

[Israel] Stress and Burnout Among Prison Personnel : Sources, Outcomes, and Intervention Strategies
Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 34, No. 3, 380-398 (2007)
http://cjb.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/3/380
Giora Keinan ; Ayala Malach-Pines [Sub required]

Shared services at HM Prison Service: how has HR coped with the change so far? / Personnel today, 13 Feb 2007
http://digbig.com/4rkhq
Nic Paton
"Last year, HM Prison Service announced a move to shared services it hopes will save £30m a year. How has HR coped with the change so far? reports"

Drugs thrown over fence to prisoners / Rochdale Observer, 9 Feb 2007
http://digbig.com/4rhgm
Bethan Dorsett
"FRIENDS are hand-delivering drugs and mobile phones to Buckley Hall prisoners – by throwing them over the security fence. A damning report by an independent monitoring board blames the practice for a rise in drug abuse among inmates. A survey was carried out between July 2005 and June 2006, during which time Buckley Hall switched back from a female to a category C male prison.The monitoring board discovered a rise in bullying which is ‘almost entirely due to drug debts.’

Criminal justice: are you ready for the science bit? / New Scientist, 10 Feb 2007
http://digbig.com/4rgmp
Peter Aldhous
"UK Home Secretary John Reid is in deep trouble, trying to manage a criminal justice system that has filled prisons to overflowing. In his defence, Reid claims that "projecting the prison population is never an exact science". Perhaps he should visit the US state of Washington, which has been using scientific principles to try to avoid a similar crisis."

Evidence-Based Public Policy Options to Reduce Future Prison Construction, Criminal Justice Costs, and Crime Rates / WSIPP, October 2006
PDF - http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/06-10-1201.pdf
Steve Aos, Marna Miller, Elizabeth Drake

[USA] Justice Reinvestment: A Framework to Improve Effectiveness of Justice Policies in Texas / The Council of State Governments Justice Center, 31 Jan 2007
PDF - http://justicecenter.csg.org/downloads/FinalJointComm13007.pdf
Dr. Tony Fabelo
"This report outlines two justice reinvestment scenarios: provide more tools to the Parole Board to enhance the use of parole and increase the availability of treatment services. According to the report, state policymakers could avert spending $377 million for construction of prisons for 5,000 more inmates."
Justice Reinvestment Scenarios (pdf)
Recent and Projected Growth of the Texas Prison Population (pdf)
Policy Options to Increase Public Safety and to Manage the Growth of the Prison Population (pdf)

To stop violence, start with a better diet for prisoners, says scientist / NZ Herald, 1 Feb 2007
Simon Collins
http://digbig.com/4rdfh
"A British expert is calling on New Zealand to take the lead in reducing violent reoffending by improving prison diets. Bernard Gesch, of Oxford University's physiology department, gave 231 prisoners at Britain's Aylesbury jail either multivitamins and fish acids or a placebo for up to nine months and found that the supplements reduced violent and other serious disciplinary offences 37 per cent. Another study in an American institution for juvenile offenders saw violence reduced by 80 per cent in a group who were given extra vitamins and minerals plus education about a healthy diet, compared with a 56 per cent reduction in another group who were given only diet education."