Juliet Lyon

Juliet Lyon succeeded Stephen Shaw as Director of the Prison Reform Trust when he was appointed Prisons and Probation Ombudsman in 1999. PRT provides information, conducts research and works as the secretariat to the All Party Penal Affairs Group.

Before joining PRT, Juliet was associate director of the Trust for the Study of Adolescence. She has worked in mental health and in education as head of a psychiatric unit school. Her publications are mostly about young people on the margins of society. They include Home Office Research Study 201 "“Tell Them So They Listen: Messages from Young People in Custody”". She is a professional advisor to ChildLine.

Juliet worked as a member of the advisory group to John Halliday’s Review of the Sentencing Framework and the Social Exclusion Unit’s study of re-offending by ex-offenders and currently contributes to the Ministerial Roundtable on Prison Suicides.

In September 2008, she joined the board of the Women's National Commission, set up to speak on behalf of women in the UK.

She is married to John Lyon, Director General of Legal and Judicial Services at the Department for Constitutional Affairs, a UK Government Department.

External links

* [http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk Prison Reform Trust]