Recommendation 23: Violence reduction and prisoner councils
From Report of the Zahid Mubarek inquiry (Volumes I and II), published 29 June 2006.
Recommendation
The violence reduction strategy should be used as a vehicle to encourage prisoners to feel that they have a stake in making their prison safe – in particular, by encouraging prisoners to think that they have let other prisoners down if they resort to violence, and by letting prisoners have a say in the running of their prison through prisoner councils. Every prison should be required to have a functioning prisoner council made up of elected representatives which meets at regular intervals.
Government response
No government response to this recommendation is on the record yet.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from the addressee has been found in the sources searched (last checked 7 March 2026). This is separate from the response above.