This Prison Service Instruction (PSI), produced by the Ministry of Justice, provides rules, regulations and guidelines around prison visits. It includes information about the minimum requirements English and Welsh prisons must provide regarding visits, visitor facilities, safeguarding, visitor information etc and also makes suggestions about additional services that prisons may wish to consider providing. The PSI stresses the importance of family ties and visits, both to the prisoner and their family, and cites the reduction in intergenerational offending as a potential outcome of successful visiting arrangements.
See PSI 16/2011 Providing Visits and Services to Visits below:
