Mercers' Lecture: Can Prisons Work?
Dame Anne Owers, DBE, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons
Wednesday 12th May, 2010 7.30pm (Memorial Hall)

Dauntsey's is very pleased to have secured a final addition to this year's Mercers' Lecture programme, and will be welcoming Dame Anne Owers, DBE, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons on Wednesday 12th May. For nine years, Dame Anne was Director of JUSTICE, the independent UK-based human rights and law reform organisation, during which time she was a member of various Government committees. In August 2001 she was appointed HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and she reports on the treatment of prisoners and the conditions in which they are held. The Inspectorate also undertakes inspection of Immigration Service Removal Centres and Short Term Holding Centres, the Military Correctional Training Centre at Colchester, prisons in Northern Ireland, and by invitation, prisons in the Channel Islands, Isle of Man and overseas. HM Chief Inspector may also be asked by the Justice Secretary to investigate, advise and report on specific incidents in the Prison Service. Anne was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2009 New Year's honours list.

Free Admission with entry ticket. For tickets please contact: info@dauntseys.org or tel: 01380 814500.