Prisoner Debt Study HMPPS

Carry out ethnographic research in a small sample of prisons to understand the nature of debt in prisons and its impact on prisoners, including on prisoner safety, and to identify pinch-points and emerging threats. Methods will include qualitative interviews, observation, use of internal data and management information and structured surveys in these and additional prisons. These sources will be integrated with findings from in-house intelligence and analysis. The research will be oriented towards potential solutio...