Prison Report: Purpose, Impact, and Service Modifications Analysis

This report delves into the purpose and impact of prison reports, detailing their role in recording, tracking, and managing prison activities. It highlights how these reports have evolved to address current issues and recommend future modifications within the criminal justice system, particularly in the United Kingdom. The report examines the various types of reports, such as probation and inspection reports, and how they influence government policies, funding, and governance. It further analyzes the service impact, emphasizing key areas like rehabilitation, leadership, education, and health, where modifications are implemented based on the findings of these reports. The report underscores the importance of these documents in reforming the prison system, ensuring public safety, and improving the lives of prisoners. It also references key studies and reports, such as the Liverpool report, to illustrate real-world impacts and the continuous efforts to improve prison efficiency and functionality.

Prison Report

Table of Contents
Prison Reports and its purpose....................................................................................................1
Service impact.............................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................4

Prison Reports and its purpose
Prison report are being documented or produced for reporting, recording, tracking and
managing numerous activities and operations incurring in the prison. The prison system has
developed decades before i.e. transformed and modified into their present form. Thus, a report
of prison consists of present scenario, requirements, demands and future recommendations
within their broad efforts to deliver a greater focus over the issues and their actual conditions
(Crawley, 2013). The primary purpose of building a proper prison report is to record the
incurring activities, to protect and safeguard public, to identify the requirements and demands, to
underlie and demonstrate the needed modifications and to evolve the framework better carrying
out operations in significant manner. Major focus of such reports are aware the state about the
current condition of prison and determine and reduce the challenges required to make
modifications in the present system. The government of country was focusing over the dealing
i.e. managing with a system of prison which is recently stretched to a certain breaking point. The
system of criminal justice and its final system has been developing and fastest-developing sector
of the state spending. Numerous types of reports are presented under the prison reports such as
probation report, inspection report, investigation reports, consultation reports etc. These reports
and developed and evolved by Secretary state of Justice, Lord Chancellor, HM inspectorate
Majesty etc. to the government of United Kingdom.
On the grounds of these reports, key modifications are carried out in the entire system of
prison along with highlight over the demands of prisoners is undertaken in regard of making
their lives better. Government of United Kingdom believes and claims that major through
creating and developing such system and proper reporting framework, state can work over more
disciplined and scientific system of prisons to assure civilians more safe and secure society.
Hence, key purpose of setting and evaluating numerous divisions of prison is to build stronger
and evolved distinct amendments required for improving a system that is better to execute and
implement (Posavac, 2015). Purpose of outlining prison reports is to set an accurate and
coherent blue-print for future prison and identify requirements of government ascertaining
accurate and suitable framework for policy, funding and governance i.e. places for those
approaches and techniques in the short sustaining time period. The paper determines the
rationale of the requirements and project, demonstrating their focus, in regard of working
management and pursing numerous practices to make the functioning in agreeable and
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appropriate manner. These documents not only focus over the practices and modification
required in prison but also light over the operations and function configuration requirements
aiming over numerous consequences emerged in previous, future and present system framework.
This is holding their grip over transport process improving data and evidence, ascertaining over
the state inspections, clarify the government roles as well as requirements in amendments in the
governmental system and structure for the future purpose (Liebling, 2011). Also, this sets and
introduce a certain vision, mission and objectives which is followed by the whole prison entities
to achieve within certain set duration of time.
Service impact
A prison report not only refer to a document but also referred as the overall review of
structure, framework, operations and government policies carried out in the prison helps in
reforming, amending and reconfiguring changes, safety structures and set modifications. A
critical evaluation over the practices and recommend suggestions are coordinated after an annual
report is being conducted. The work of research, assessment, reporting and undertaking the
prison report carry out the modifications and needed changes in the existing services and
criminal justice system to drive changes. Following are the mentioned major services and
segments where key modifications are carried out in their services i.e. 1) rehabilitation and risk,
2) autonomy, leadership and devolution, 3) employment and education, 4) wellbeing and health,
5) service user engagement, 6) workforce of rehab, and 7) functioning structure and library etc.
These are the major sector and services which have been provided in the prison framework after
the evaluation of prison report after the amendment and overview of prison report overtime.
Numerous policies and government plans are reformed and altered with the execution and
amendment of prison report (Olver, Stockdale and Wormith, 2011). Hence, this can affirm that
prison report make certain over the review of financial execution, budgeting, system, provided
framework and numerous other activities along with delivering suggestions that are needed in
the whole structure needed to reform.
Numerous amendments are made in the distinct laws, acts, policies and system services
after the inclusion and development of prison report that has delivered support to various
prisoners. These services are amended or provided in estate sector, youth reviews and
educations, courts and investigation of problem solving, rehab transformation etc. according
which different approaches and techniques are created. This defend, safeguard and protect the
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criminals and prisoners as well as civilians around the world. Since 2013 reports, 86,000 people
were undergone from the process of benchmarking to develop efficiency in the public sector
prison after evaluating annual prison report. For e.g. Liverpool report stated the prison more
unsafe and dysfunctional as inmates of the prison are examined as worst condition of living
according to the report. The Criminal Justice Inspectorates are employing suggested
recommendation to reduce the critics and future hurdles from the system facilitating numerous
safety and living services to the prisoners. Thus, prison report provides legal obligation to the
document changes that could influence provided and supported numerous practices. Reform of
prison creation and consider the project alongside the numerous practices. Hence, above
discussed notion affirms that prison reports are as significant as other reports in the country as
this aims over the development, administration and evolution of distinct components that is
fundamental for achieving business objectives (Alem, Destal and Araya, 2017). These reports
suggest various creation, modifications and other amendments demanded and driving to the new
services and changes in the practices of Prisons in United Kingdom and across the world. It can
state that numerous positive changes can drives through these report along with decreasing
major drawbacks from the structure.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Crawley, E., 2013. Doing prison work. Willan.
Posavac, E.J., 2015. Program evaluation: Methods and case studies. Routledge.
Liebling, A., 2011. Distinctions and distinctiveness in the work of prison officers: Legitimacy
and authority revisited. European Journal of Criminology. 8(6). pp.484-499.
Olver, M.E., Stockdale, K.C. and Wormith, J.S., 2011. A meta-analysis of predictors of offender
treatment attrition and its relationship to recidivism. Journal of consulting and clinical
psychology. 79(1). p.6.
Alem, A., Destal, M. and Araya, M., 2017. Mental health in Ethiopia EPHA Expert Group
report. The Ethiopian Journal of Health Development (EJHD). 9(1).
Online
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