PAS in the Media
This section contains a sample of a wide range of media sources that have featured PAS in the last few years. These sources include: newspapers (e.g.: The Guardian, Inside Time), journals / magazines (e.g. The Law Gazette, The Legal Action Group Magazine and The Solicitors’ Journal), websites (e.g. the BBC, Huffington Post, The Justice Gap) and radio broadcasts (e.g. BBC Radio 4).
- 2024
- PAS Contributes to Independent Article Excoriating the Practice of Releasing Prisoners Homeless
- 2021
- PAS Women Prisoners’ Caseworker Takes Part in 7BR Podcast Part Heard to Talk About New Fathers Guide
- 2020
- PAS Appears on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire to Discuss Early Prisoner Release
- New Statesman Backs PAS Call for Justice Secretary to Release Certain Groups of Prisoners to Slow Down Coronavirus May 2020
- PAS Director Lubia Begum-Rob Quoted in Hackney Citizen Article May 2020
- PAS Calls on Justice Secretary to Take Action in BBC Article on Suspension of Early Prisoner Release April 2020
- PAS’ Threatened Legal Action Cited in Guardian Article on Delay of UK Coronavirus Prison Plan April 2020
- PAS’ Potential Legal Action Against Government Cited in Online ITV News Article, April 2020
- PAS Director Quoted in Guardian Article about Cohorting Prisoners with Covid-19 March 2020
- PAS Mentioned in Inside Time Article, “Government Considers Releasing Prisoners” March 2020
- Guardian Article Cites PAS’ Call to Release Prisoners during Coronavirus Crisis March 2020
- 2019
- Anna Fairbank interview Enable Magazine March 2019
- The Guardian: Prison service quashes governor’s rulings seen in Channel 4 show
- 2018
- Inside Time article by PAS Community Caseworker, Laura Orger, giving advice on making most of Prison Healthcare.
- Discrimination Law Association magazine article on Impact of Sentences on Women by PAS Women Prisoners’ Caseworker, Kate Lill.
- PAS former Co-Director, Deborah Russo, quoted in Guardian article by PAS trustee Eric Allison regarding the Worboys parole controversy
- The Guardian: NHS trust ‘struggles to meet needs’ at Thameside Prison
- Legal Aid Reinstated after PAS Landmark Victory
- 2017
- The Guardian: Cuts to legal aid for prisoners ruled unlawful
- Legal Voice: Access to justice for prisoners is a necessity, not a luxury
- The Guardian: Legal aid cuts delaying prisoners’ release, court will be told
- Huffington Post: Prison Charities Appeal For Help To Challenge Legal Aid Cuts
- 2016
- The Guardian: PAS Appeal against Legal Aid Cuts is mentioned in Article about New Director of Liberty
- The Guardian: PAS Facilitates Prisoner’s Move to Care Home
- The Inside Time Newspaper: PAS Helps Prisoner with Re-Categorisation of Prison Sentence
- The Inside Time Newspaper: PAS Supports Prisoner with Overturning Table Ban in Segregation Unit
- The Justice Gap: PAS lecture: Whole life prisoners and ‘the right to hope’
- 2015
- BBC News: PAS Releases Statement on the High Court’s Absconder Policy Ruling
- The Guardian: PAS Comments on Children being Denied Visits to Fathers in Jail
- The Legal Action Group: PAS brings about Judicial Review on Indeterminate Sentence Prisoners and Open Conditions Policy
- 2014
- BBC Radio 4: Prisoners’ Advice Service Appeal
- The BBC: High Court Rejects PAS’s Objection to Prisoner Legal Aid Cuts
- The Guardian: PAS Challenges Government Prisoner Legal Aid Cuts at the High Court
- The Law Gazette: PAS to take Prison Aid Cuts Rejection to Court of Appeal
- The Law Gazette: Court of Appeal Grants Permission for PAS to Appeal Prisoner Legal Aid Cuts
- 2013
- The Crime Report: PAS Questions Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons
- Justice Gap Reports on Annual PAS/Justice Gap Debate
- The Justice Gap: PAS mentioned in Article on Life in Prison
- 2012
- The Guardian: PAS Comments on the Treatment of Disabled Prisoners in Prison
- The Huffington Post: PAS’s View on the Incentive and Earned Privilege Scheme
- The Justice Gap: PAS’s Thoughts on the Increasing Privatisation of the Prison Service
- 2011
- The Guardian: Prisoners’ Advice Service Celebrates 20th Anniversary
- PAS Challenges Prison’s Decision to Keep a Prisoner Imprisoned to complete an Offending Behaviour Course
- The Solicitors’ Journal: How has the Prison System Changed since the Birth of PAS?
- 2020
- PAS Appears on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire to Discuss Early Prisoner Release
- New Statesman Backs PAS Call for Justice Secretary to Release Certain Groups of Prisoners to Slow Down Coronavirus May 2020
- PAS Director Lubia Begum-Rob Quoted in Hackney Citizen Article May 2020
- PAS Calls on Justice Secretary to Take Action in BBC Article on Suspension of Early Prisoner Release April 2020
- PAS’ Threatened Legal Action Cited in Guardian Article on Delay of UK Coronavirus Prison Plan April 2020
- PAS’ Potential Legal Action Against Government Cited in Online ITV News Article, April 2020
- PAS Director Quoted in Guardian Article about Cohorting Prisoners with Covid-19 March 2020
- PAS Mentioned in Inside Time Article, “Government Considers Releasing Prisoners” March 2020
- Guardian Article Cites PAS’ Call to Release Prisoners during Coronavirus Crisis March 2020
- 2019
- Anna Fairbank interview Enable Magazine March 2019
- The Guardian: Prison service quashes governor’s rulings seen in Channel 4 show
- 2018
- Inside Time article by PAS Community Caseworker, Laura Orger, giving advice on making most of Prison Healthcare.
- Discrimination Law Association magazine article on Impact of Sentences on Women by PAS Women Prisoners’ Caseworker, Kate Lill.
- PAS former Co-Director, Deborah Russo, quoted in Guardian article by PAS trustee Eric Allison regarding the Worboys parole controversy
- The Guardian: NHS trust ‘struggles to meet needs’ at Thameside Prison
- Legal Aid Reinstated after PAS Landmark Victory
- 2017
- The Guardian: Cuts to legal aid for prisoners ruled unlawful
- Legal Voice: Access to justice for prisoners is a necessity, not a luxury
- The Guardian: Legal aid cuts delaying prisoners’ release, court will be told
- Huffington Post: Prison Charities Appeal For Help To Challenge Legal Aid Cuts
- 2016
- The Guardian: PAS Appeal against Legal Aid Cuts is mentioned in Article about New Director of Liberty
- The Guardian: PAS Facilitates Prisoner’s Move to Care Home
- The Inside Time Newspaper: PAS Helps Prisoner with Re-Categorisation of Prison Sentence
- The Inside Time Newspaper: PAS Supports Prisoner with Overturning Table Ban in Segregation Unit
- The Justice Gap: PAS lecture: Whole life prisoners and ‘the right to hope’
- 2015
- BBC News: PAS Releases Statement on the High Court’s Absconder Policy Ruling
- The Guardian: PAS Comments on Children being Denied Visits to Fathers in Jail
- The Legal Action Group: PAS brings about Judicial Review on Indeterminate Sentence Prisoners and Open Conditions Policy
- 2014
- BBC Radio 4: Prisoners’ Advice Service Appeal
- The BBC: High Court Rejects PAS’s Objection to Prisoner Legal Aid Cuts
- The Guardian: PAS Challenges Government Prisoner Legal Aid Cuts at the High Court
- The Law Gazette: PAS to take Prison Aid Cuts Rejection to Court of Appeal
- The Law Gazette: Court of Appeal Grants Permission for PAS to Appeal Prisoner Legal Aid Cuts
- 2013
- The Crime Report: PAS Questions Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons
- Justice Gap Reports on Annual PAS/Justice Gap Debate
- The Justice Gap: PAS mentioned in Article on Life in Prison
- 2012
- The Guardian: PAS Comments on the Treatment of Disabled Prisoners in Prison
- The Huffington Post: PAS’s View on the Incentive and Earned Privilege Scheme
- The Justice Gap: PAS’s Thoughts on the Increasing Privatisation of the Prison Service
- 2011
- The Guardian: Prisoners’ Advice Service Celebrates 20th Anniversary
- PAS Challenges Prison’s Decision to Keep a Prisoner Imprisoned to complete an Offending Behaviour Course
- The Solicitors’ Journal: How has the Prison System Changed since the Birth of PAS?
- 2020
- PAS Appears on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire to Discuss Early Prisoner Release
- New Statesman Backs PAS Call for Justice Secretary to Release Certain Groups of Prisoners to Slow Down Coronavirus May 2020
- PAS Director Lubia Begum-Rob Quoted in Hackney Citizen Article May 2020
- PAS Calls on Justice Secretary to Take Action in BBC Article on Suspension of Early Prisoner Release April 2020
- PAS’ Threatened Legal Action Cited in Guardian Article on Delay of UK Coronavirus Prison Plan April 2020
- PAS’ Potential Legal Action Against Government Cited in Online ITV News Article, April 2020
- PAS Director Quoted in Guardian Article about Cohorting Prisoners with Covid-19 March 2020
- PAS Mentioned in Inside Time Article, “Government Considers Releasing Prisoners” March 2020
- Guardian Article Cites PAS’ Call to Release Prisoners during Coronavirus Crisis March 2020
- 2019
- Anna Fairbank interview Enable Magazine March 2019
- The Guardian: Prison service quashes governor’s rulings seen in Channel 4 show
- 2018
- Inside Time article by PAS Community Caseworker, Laura Orger, giving advice on making most of Prison Healthcare.
- Discrimination Law Association magazine article on Impact of Sentences on Women by PAS Women Prisoners’ Caseworker, Kate Lill.
- PAS former Co-Director, Deborah Russo, quoted in Guardian article by PAS trustee Eric Allison regarding the Worboys parole controversy
- The Guardian: NHS trust ‘struggles to meet needs’ at Thameside Prison
- Legal Aid Reinstated after PAS Landmark Victory
- 2017
- The Guardian: Cuts to legal aid for prisoners ruled unlawful
- Legal Voice: Access to justice for prisoners is a necessity, not a luxury
- The Guardian: Legal aid cuts delaying prisoners’ release, court will be told
- Huffington Post: Prison Charities Appeal For Help To Challenge Legal Aid Cuts
- 2016
- The Guardian: PAS Appeal against Legal Aid Cuts is mentioned in Article about New Director of Liberty
- The Guardian: PAS Facilitates Prisoner’s Move to Care Home
- The Inside Time Newspaper: PAS Helps Prisoner with Re-Categorisation of Prison Sentence
- The Inside Time Newspaper: PAS Supports Prisoner with Overturning Table Ban in Segregation Unit
- The Justice Gap: PAS lecture: Whole life prisoners and ‘the right to hope’
- 2015
- BBC News: PAS Releases Statement on the High Court’s Absconder Policy Ruling
- The Guardian: PAS Comments on Children being Denied Visits to Fathers in Jail
- The Legal Action Group: PAS brings about Judicial Review on Indeterminate Sentence Prisoners and Open Conditions Policy
- 2014
- BBC Radio 4: Prisoners’ Advice Service Appeal
- The BBC: High Court Rejects PAS’s Objection to Prisoner Legal Aid Cuts
- The Guardian: PAS Challenges Government Prisoner Legal Aid Cuts at the High Court
- The Law Gazette: PAS to take Prison Aid Cuts Rejection to Court of Appeal
- The Law Gazette: Court of Appeal Grants Permission for PAS to Appeal Prisoner Legal Aid Cuts
- 2013
- The Crime Report: PAS Questions Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons
- Justice Gap Reports on Annual PAS/Justice Gap Debate
- The Justice Gap: PAS mentioned in Article on Life in Prison
- 2012
- The Guardian: PAS Comments on the Treatment of Disabled Prisoners in Prison
- The Huffington Post: PAS’s View on the Incentive and Earned Privilege Scheme
- The Justice Gap: PAS’s Thoughts on the Increasing Privatisation of the Prison Service
- 2011
- The Guardian: Prisoners’ Advice Service Celebrates 20th Anniversary
- PAS Challenges Prison’s Decision to Keep a Prisoner Imprisoned to complete an Offending Behaviour Course
- The Solicitors’ Journal: How has the Prison System Changed since the Birth of PAS?