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Inside out: how to get drugs out of prisons
Huseyin Djemil, Centre for Policy Studies, 2008.
Report advocating a new pre-emptive, intelligence-led approach to the problem of drugs in prisons. Although the government has committed significant resources to tackling the problem, the report claims that drug dealers are organised, highly motivated and have built effective alliances for mutual benefit and profit.
Web: http://www.nationalschool.gov.uk/policyhub/news_item/drugs_prison_cps08.asp
Review of prison-based drug treatment funding: final report.
Price Waterhouse Cooper, March, 2008.
This review addresses the question of whether the extent and administration of funding is sufficient to meet the requirements and obligations of prisons in terms of drug treatment services for offenders. It centres around the following issues: meeting prisoners’ needs, standards of care, treatment outcomes, improvement of funding and commissioning to meet minimum treatment standards, and performance management of treatment.
Web: http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/prison-drug-treatment-funding.pdf (PDF)
Survey of Buprenorphine Misuse in Prisons
Ministry of Justice, 2008
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) commissioned this survey to measure the illegal use of buprenorphine (Subutex) following the increased use in the treatment of offenders.
http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/survey-buprenorphine.pdf (PDF)
Prison population projections 2007-2014: England and Wales
de Silva N., Cowell P., Chinegwundoh V., Mason T., Maresh J., Williamson K., UK. Home Office. Research, Development and Statistics Directorate., UK. Office for National Statistics, 2007.
This bulletin presents the latest projections of the prison population in England and Wales for the period from January 2007-June 2014.
Download: Full report (PDF 345KB)
Managing Drug Misusers Under Probation Supervision : Guidance for Probation, CJITS and CARAT Teams
UK. DOH, NTA,National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP), 2007.
This guidance for Probation, CJITS and CARAT Teams has been produced for Criminal Justice Integrated Teams (CJITs), Counselling Assessment, Referral Advice and Throughcare Teams (CARATs) and offender managers in the National Probation Service (NPS). The guidance:
- Describes the respective responsibilities of agencies regarding the sharing of information
- Clarifies how drug-misusing offenders subject to ‘statutory supervision’ (i.e. offenders on community orders or post-custodial licence) should be managed by probation offender managers, CARATs workers and CJIT staff
- Provides a checklist to assist in the preparation of local protocols.
Web: http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/publication-search/dip/AC_MANAGINGDRUG_MISUSE_GUIDANCE?view=Standard&pubID=503910
The Corston Report: a review of women with particular vulnerabilities in the criminal justice system
Corston J. Home Office, 2007.
A report by Baroness Jean Corston of a review of women with particular vulnerabilities in the criminal justice system, outlining the need for a distinct radically different, visibly-led, strategic, proportionate, holistic, woman-centred, integrated approach.
Web: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/corston-report/?version=1
Drug-related mortality among newly released offenders 1998 to 2000
Farrell M., Marsden J. Home Office, 2005.
This study aimed to obtain more information about the extent and nature of drug-related mortality among newly released prisoners in England and Wales.
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Throughcare and aftercare: approaches and promising practice in service delivery for clients released from prison or leaving residential rehabilitation
Fox A., Khan L., Briggs D., Rees-Jones N., Thompson Z., Owens J. UK. Home Office. Research, Development and Statistics Directorate., Galahad SMS Ltd., 2005
(Home Office Online Report 01/05). The Home Office commissioned a report in August 2003 to examine existing approaches to throughcare and aftercare services for people with drug problems returning to the community from prison and residential rehabilitation centres. The findings summarised in this report are based on interviews conducted with staff and clients from the case studies in conjunction with interviews from staff and prisoners in the referring agencies. The report was commissioned in order to assist with the development of the Criminal Justice Interventions Programme (CJIP, now known as the Drug Interventions Programme). It describes the main approaches to aftercare evident in the case studies, identifies the key challenges to effective delivery and highlights some of the more promising practices in service delivery.
Download: Full report (PDF 347KB)
Using women
Roberts M., Vromen N. DrugScope, 2005.
This report is divided into chapters on victims and offenders, on the inside: drugs and drug treatment in prison, innocent victims: the impact on children, alternatives to imprisonment and conclusion: looking to the future.
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Tackling prison drug markets: an exploratory qualitative study
Penfold C., Turnball P.J. Webster R. Home Office, 2005.
This study investigated drug supply and demand in six local prisons in England.
Download: Full report (PDF 343KB)
The CARAT drug service in prisons: findings from the research database: Findings 262
May C. Home Office, 2005.
This report presents the findings from a database set up to monitor prisoners accessing the CARAT drug service across prisons in England and Wales, their profile, and services received. The study, based on 48,675 cases in 2004/05, outlines the profile of prisoners accessing the service in terms of demographic factors, offences, sentence length and drug use. The findings provide contextual background information to inform policy, for example by helping to indicate where best to target drug interventions.
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