By Geof Jarvis | Updated GlobalGiving Report 1 April 2019 to 30 Jun
Updated GlobalGiving Report 1 April 2019 to 30 June 2019
Delivery of Outreach Clinics for Older and Disabled Prisoners
Since our last report, your kind donations have continued to help us to maintain our outreach services for older and disabled prisoners across England and Wales.
Working with Older and Disabled Prisoners
Over the second quarter of 2019, your support helped support our Community Care Caseworker to deliver four Outreach Clinics in three prisons: HMPs Pentonville and Thameside, both in London, and Lewes in East Sussex. During these clinics, our Caseworkers held 42 one-to-one meetings with individual older and/or disabled prisoners.
Your support also helped our Caseworkers to open four new cases on behalf of older and/or disabled prisoners between the beginning of January and the end of March.
Our telephone Advice Line received 48 calls from prisoners over the age of 50 and 72 from prisoners who considered themselves be a person with health issues / disabilities.
Case Study
Prisoner A, who was sentenced for 42 months for benefit fraud, was de-categorised two months ago to Category D (low risk).
He was therefore told that he would be transferred to an ‘open’ prison, which is less restrictive and would aid his rehabilitation back into society.
However, when the prisoner transfer vehicle arrived to move him, he was told by officers that he could not board due to his wheelchair.
He called our advice line and spoke to one of our community care caseworkers, who put pressure on the prison to make reasonable adjustments for his disability and provide suitably modified transport for his transfer.
Happily, Prisoner A rang us this week to say that the prison had promised to find a modified vehicle for his transfer and the prison wrote to us to confirm that the transfer has now taken place.
In Conclusion
Prisoners’ Advice Service remains most grateful to GlobalGIving for helping to support our work with older and disabled prisoners in England and Wales. Without the assistance of donations from individuals such as yourself, the work that we do with vulnerable prisoners would be severely curtailed.
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