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The British Journal of Criminology 29:107-128 (1989)
© 1989 Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (formerly ISTD)

RESEARCH-ARTICLE

BRITISH PRISONS 1970–1987

The Ever-Deepening Crisis

Roy D. KING and KATHLEEN McDERMOTT*

The prison crisis is usually perceived to be a problem of crowding and sanitation in the local prisons. In this paper the data from two research projects, conducted in 1970–2 and 1985–7, are compared. Each involved the study of a different but representative and comparable group of five prisons for adult males. The data show that while crowding in local prisons continues to be a problem, sanitary facilities have been improved. However, on most measures, including access to those facilities, the recent study revealed consistently worse regimes than the earlier study, in spite of major improvements in staff: prisoner ratios. In important respects the higher-security prisons now most closely resemble the local prison of fifteen years ago.


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