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New laws will end automatic release for badly behaved offenders and strengthen community punishment.
What happens to benefits if you or someone in your family goes to prison or is on remand.
Benefit payments and entitlement may change or stop if you, your partner…
You cannot get benefits if you go to prison, apart from: the housing…
You will not get the Universal Credit standard allowance if you’re in…
You may be able to continue getting Housing Benefit or make a claim for…
You will not count as an adult living in a property for Council Tax if…
You can continue to claim Child Benefit when you’re in prison if: your…
Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) is no longer a benefit. It’s now only…
Visiting a prisoner: visiting times, keeping in touch by email, telephone or letter, banned items and sending money to a prisoner by debit card or online bank transfer
Letters You can contact a prisoner by writing to them. Write the person’s…
Prisoners are not allowed to access social networking websites (such as…
You must not send or give anything to a prisoner that: is indecent or…
You can send money to someone in prison by making an online payment by…
You can make an online request to visit someone in prison in most cases.…
The range of prison sentences a court can give - including suspended, fixed-term, indeterminate and life sentences.
What to expect if you're sent to prison - prison rules and regulations, healthcare and education, prisoner rights
How a prisoner is released - including Parole Board hearings, resettlement schemes and temporary release on licence
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
This guide provides information about being arrested in Austria and what conditions are like in prison there.
Send money to a prisoner in England and Wales by debit card for free
This guide provides information about being arrested in Venezuela and what conditions are like in prison there.
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