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01 December 1996

Prison Privatisation Report International. No 1 (June) 1996 4pp. First issue of a Prison Reform Trust new journal which will report news of international developments in prison privatisation; monitor the performance of the privatised sector; describe the growth of the penal industrial complex"; and analyse new government initiatives."

Prison Watch Newsletter. Prison Watch May 1996. This newsletter records 22 known death in prison between January and early May 1996; an appendix reviews recent death since then. Press releases 166-174 review various other deaths in prison.

Holloway - increased security = increased neglect Clare Barstow, Fight Racism Fight Imperialism April/May 1996 p12. This article, by a woman who was in Holloway prison during 1995, documents the break-down in a prison regime that leads to increased security measures and the "depression self-harm, violence.. characteristic of a repressive regime".

Wolds remand prison - an evaluation Keith Bottomley Adrian James Emma Clare & Alison Liebling. Home Office Research and Statistics Directive Research Findings No 32 1996 pp4. Wolds remand prison was the first private remand prison run under the management of Group 4.

The imprisonment of women: some facts and figures. Penal Affairs Consortium (March) 1996 pp4. This report records a 57% increase in the number of women prisoners since 1992. Of the 4,406 sentenced women in 1994 33% were imprisoned for fine defaulting

Of the 3,714 women remanded in custody in 1994 only 29% subsequently received custodial sentences.

Projections of long term trends in the prison population to 2004, Home Office Statistical Bulletin Issue 4/96 (April) 1996 pp12.

In debt and in prison Rona Epstein. Legal Action May 1996 p8. This piece summarises ongoing research into people who are imprisoned because they cannot afford to pay their debts; it focuses on women in Holloway prison in north London.

Parliamentary debates

Buckley Hall Prison Commons 27.3.96. cols 994-1001 Women in Prison Commons 28.3.96. cols 1281-1288 Prisons (Northumberland) Commons 23.4.96. cols 339-346 Prisoners' Earnings Bill Commons 26.4.96. cols 724-731