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The growth of managerialism has led to the expansion of technologies of control and monitoring within prisons, including key performance targets and audits. A longer-standing method of prison regulation is provided by HM Inspectorate of Prisons ( HMIP). This article draws upon ethnographic research in order to consider how inspection is located in the context of managerialism. The article explores the structure of inspection and the micro-processes of practice and culture. It is argued that prison inspection provides a distinctive form of monitoring that is concerned with the lived experience of imprisonment rather than management systems and promotes values of humanity as opposed to those of economic rationality propagated by managerial practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a response to Piché and Walby's (2010) criticism of 'carceral tours'. It uses 40 reflective accounts, completed by final year students at Birmingham City University, of their visit to HMP Grendon - an annual visit which has been ongoing for ten years - to argue that this 'carceral tour' has pedagogical value to the students and is also important to the prisoners and prison staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the role and training of prison officers in England, between 1877 and 1914. It is concerned with the changing penal philosophies and practices of this period and how these were implemented in local prisons, and the duties of the prison officer. More broadly, this article argues that the role of the prison officer and their training (from 1896) reflect wider ambiguities in prison policy and practice during this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]