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| Date: 26 November 2010 | Time: 9.30am - 1.00pm | Venue: University of Ulster, Belfast Campus |
On 26 November, academics from the University of Ulster and from Queens University Belfast jointly participated in a symposium to inform the Prison Review Team about research on prisons being carried out at both universities. The Prison Review team, headed up by Dame Anne Owers, former Chief Inspector of Prisons (England and Wales) is tasked with assessing prison conditions in Northern Ireland and making recommendations for change.
Pictured: (L-R) Paul Leighton (Prison Review Team), Prof Paul Carmichael (Dean Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ulster), Prof Phil Scraton (School of Law, Queens University Belfast), Dame Anne Owers (Prison Review Team) Dr Cathy Gormley-Heenan (Director Institute for Research in Social Sciences)
The symposium was co-hosted by the Institute for Research in Social Sciences (IRISS) (UU) and the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice (QUB) and demonstrated the breadth of work being carried out in this area. From Ulster, research areas covered in presentations to the team included transition and change in the criminal justice process (John Topping and Mary O’Rawe), education in prisons (Tracy Irwin), family rights (Alice Diver), young prisoners (Una Convery), restorative practice in prisons (Hugh Campbell and Tim Chapman) and the need for structural and institutional change (Linda Moore).
The Review Team is expected to publish its first report in the New Year.
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