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The article announces that researchers Miranda Bevan, Chloe Peacock, and Emma Young have received the 2014 John Sunley Prize award for their Masters dissertations which shows insights into the justice system and penal reform in Great Britain.

The article focuses on British government efforts to establish real work in prison. It states that the government has published a green paper on sentencing reform and rehabilitation which proposes work in prison inspired by the Howard League for Penal Reform. It also mentions that the Howard League established the Barbed graphic design studio in Coldingley prison where it was found that employed inmates broadened their ambitions and no longer committed crimes after being released.

The article presents information on a report titled "Women in Prison: Coercive and Consensual Sex," published in the paper by the Commission on Sex in Prison which reveals that women prisoners in England are forced into sex with prison staff in return for favours like cigarettes and alcohol.