Article 2: Uncomfortable Honesty and Some Home Truths: Where to go now for Prison Rehabilitation?

Recent reviews and inquiries have concluded contemporary prisons are ill-equipped to rehabilitate. These highlight just how often the conditions under which meaningful rehabilitative experiences can be provided are absent, drawing attention to the pervasive criminogenic impacts of prison conditions, cultures, and regimes. In this article I argue we should welcome these critiques, as well as do more to celebrate our successes. They serve to highlight the importance of the prison environment to rehabilitative success, as well as the need to collect better evidence about the necessary and sufficient conditions for change to take place.