Breaking the cycle of crisis and crime

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We champion long-term solutions for justice reform that tackle the root causes of reoffending and support people’s journeys towards better lives.

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“Revolving Doors has really set the bar for how to work with people who have lived experience and make real changes to improve the criminal justice system.”

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We are calling for a reset of the criminal justice system that fundamentally ends the cycle of crisis and crime. The experiences of people who have shared their thoughts about the criminal justice system underpin our cutting-edge research.

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Latest HMP Bronzefield  inspection report highlights failings of women in the criminal justice system

Yesterday (May 11th), Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMI Prisons) released an inspection report into HMP Bronzefield, England’s largest female prison. The inspection’s findings with regards to resettlement and women with complex needs are indicative of wider issues within the criminal justice system. The report finds that 65% of women…
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Revolving Doors launches new inquiry into the future of Probation

Today, we are delighted to publish our lived experience inquiry into the future of the Probation Service. The inquiry involved speaking to 141 people with lived experience of probation supervision and 35 probation practitioners over an eighteen month period, from September 2020 to March 2022. These conversations enabled us to…
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Revolving Doors is evolving

We’re evolving….  We’re delighted to unveil a refresh of our brand identity and new website to help further raise our profile as a leading national charity and raise awareness of the work we do to break the cycle of crisis and crime.  Over the last year we have been working…
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Lived Experience Inquiry into Probation

This inquiry, driven from the start by our lived experience membership, brings together evidence from people with lived experience and probation practitioners to set out how the Probation Service can be supported to fulfil its potential. The inquiry covers key findings and recommendations in four key areas: the culture of the probation service, and probation’s role within courts, the community, and prison resettlement.

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‘The Knot’

In February 2021, thanks to the kind support of Lankelly Chase, we were delighted to publish a new collection of eight essays that explore how poverty, trauma and structural disadvantage create and perpetuate multiple disadvantage. These essays seek to encourage us, as service providers, policymakers, researchers and people with lived experience, to engage with the real complexities in people’s lives to start to unpick the knots between poverty, trauma and multiple disadvantage. It is only through thinking about the multiple lenses needed to more fully understand a person’s whole life, that we can start to unpick these knots.

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