- Designing and building the modern, secure prison places we need to keep criminals off the streets and also to provide the most productive environment to reform prisoners in custody;
- Ensuring the prison environment is safe, secure and stable for our prison officers and prisoners so that we can properly focus on turning people away from crime;
- Ensuring good order and discipline is maintained in our prisons through effective sanctions for prisoner misconduct, and committing to a zero-tolerance approach to drugs in prisons;
- Cutting crime through using the time offenders spend in prison to deliver a step- change in education, work-focused skills, training and employment delivered in prison, and strengthened family ties so that every prisoner has the best opportunity to leave behind their previous life of crime;
- Ramping up work to tackle the substance misuse and mental health issues which for too many prisoners pose a barrier to rehabilitation reform by deploying the full range of treatment options, including abstinence-based treatment, to support recovery from drug dependency;
- Setting clear expectations of Governors through transparent and measurable KPIs and targets, as well as increasing transparency by publishing prison level performance data;
- Giving Governors autonomy and improving accountability to better align and target rehabilitative interventions around each individual prisoner, so that they are clear on the opportunities and expectations available to them, and partner agencies have clear responsibilities; and
- Empowering Governors to innovate locally, whilst still operating within clear outcome measures which align to the Government’s priorities.
- We treat prisoners fairly, safely and decently whilst they are serving their sentences of imprisonment: offering them the chance to turn their lives around whilst ensuring that prisoners who disrupt the good order and discipline of our regimes face swift and certain consequences;
- We support prisoners to address the causes of their behaviour, encouraging them to take advantage of all the opportunities available to them whilst emphasising the consequences of failure to take responsibility for their rehabilitation;
- We offer our staff rewarding careers, treating them with respect, and offering them the support they need to do their jobs safely and effectively;
- We seek out best practice and evidence of what works to inform all that we do.