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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Statement on the Justice Select Committee’s inquiry into women in prison

Today (26th July), the Justice Select Committee published their long-awaited report following an inquiry into women in prison, which three lived experience members from Revolving Doors’ Women’s Forum fed into. While the specificities of female offending are well-established, progress to prevent women from entering the criminal justice system remains slow,…
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We’re looking for our new Involvement Manager

Can you support people with lived experience use their voice to make a difference and develop relationships with a range of stakeholder? Then you could be our next Involvement Manager! We’re looking for someone who can work across a number of projects, with strong organisational skills and an ability to…
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HMI Prisons’ annual report: why we need a wide overhaul of our prison system

Another year, another bleak outlook for our prison system. Last week, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) published their annual report summarising key findings from this year’s inspection visits and reports, and warned that many long-standing issues have not been addressed or have even worsened throughout 2021-2022. Housing and resettlement…
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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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