1.6 million behind bars: Are there any lesson to learn from the US prison system?
Clive Stafford Smith, John Podmore, and David Jessel

On Monday 20th May a team of walkers from PAS will be taking part in the London Legal Walk. It’s 10k and there have been mutterings that some might run …

The MOJ Consultation Paper on ‘Transforming Legal Aid’ (CP14/2013) was published on 9 April 2013.

PAS’s Managing Solicitor, Matthew Evans, has written a number of articles for the Justice Gap website

As previously reported, PAS was awarded the Longford Prize last week, on Thursday 22 November. The judges’ citation was as follows:

The Prisoners’ Advice Service (PAS) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the Longford Prize for 2012.

The Justice Gap website has recently featured a very interesting blog on the subject of the 6,100 prisoners remaining on IPP sentences

A new article has just been posted in the Reports section of the website. Jude Bunting, a barrister at Tooks Chambers, comments on the difficulty indeterminate sentence

The Association of Prison Lawyers is holding a seminar on Representing Women Prisoners on Monday 10 September

One of PAS’s clients, D, serving a mandatory life sentence, had been waiting for a transfer to open conditions since his approval for

The Prisoners’ Advice Service is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a five-year funding grant by the Big Lottery Fund under its Reaching Communities

PAS had taken on a client in a Category A prison, F, who was refused visits from his nephew, G, on the grounds that the nephew himself was an ex-prisoner …