ICPA2023-PID065 - Phil Wheatley

Learning Lessons from the UK's Recent Experience of Populist Criminal Justice Policies

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Philip Wheatley

Prison Adviser and Prison Expert Witness, United Kingdom

In 2010, Phil retired after working for 42 years in corrections. He joined the Prison Service as an officer and for the last 7 years of his career, he was the Director General responsible for all prisons in England and Wales and for two of those years also for Probation Services. As a Director from 1995 and later Director General in the Prison Service of England and Wales, Phil was charged with making major changes to improve security and safety and to deliver improved treatment and training opportunities for prisoners. Since 2010, he has provided advice on prison management, for 7 years as a Non Executive Director of the Northern Ireland Prison Service, 2 years working for the Scottish Prison Service as an advisor on a programme to strengthen the professionalism of the work of Prison Officers and 7 years providing advice to G4S Prison Directors, as well as work in Bermuda, Barbados, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and the Punjab in Pakistan.

Phil is currently a Non Executive Member of the Board of Management of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology and on the Board of Novus providers education services to prisons. For the last 7 years, he has provide expert witness evidence on prison matters to courts in England and Scotland including providing advice for Fatal Accident Inquiries into deaths in Scottish Prisons. His experience of 50 years working in prisons has given him an unusually wide perspective to draw on.

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