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Students examine the development of prisons in modern England, especially with a focus on open prisons, youth prisons and non-custodial sentences.

Included in the pack:

• 2 x A4 worksheets
• 1 x 23 slide main power point

UPDATED & RE-VAMPED CONTENT IN LINE WITH THE 2026 SPEC

The 23 slide fully resourced lesson contains activities, tasks, practice exam questions, printable resources and all background knowledge:

• Slide 1: Title slide
• Slide 2: Warm up - Students are presented with 9 crimes and have to discuss if they believe the crimes deserve a custodial or non-custodial sentence.
• Slide 3-4: Prisons Recap - Students order 5 statements about the use of prisons in England/Britain into what best describes the events of each period of time. Answers provided.
• Slide 5: Starter Source - Students are given a description of an open prison and Holloway Prison along with a set of questions.
• Slide 6-7: Statistical Starters - Students infer information about prisons in modern Britain from two graphs.
• Slide 8: Think & Discuss question with answers - Why did the prison population increase after the 1950s?
• Slide 9: Background information - How attitudes towards young prisoners changed.
• Slide 10: Background information - Changes to the purpose of the penal system since 1900.
• Slide 11: Clips to 4 videos covering the treatment of young people in prisons - to use alongside the worksheets.
• Slide 12: Challenge - Two sources with differing views about prisons in modern Britain with 5 questions.
• Slide 13-14: Learning Review 1 - Crossword with answers and printable worksheets
• Slide 15-17: Learning Review 2 - Key term match up with answers and printable worksheets.
• Slide 18: Lesson fact sheet
• Slide 19-20: EXAM FOCUS - Four examples of the 4 mark ‘similarity and difference’ questions with suggested sentence starters.
• Slide 21: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 12 mark ‘Explain why’ question.
• Slide 22: EXAM FOCUS - An example of a 16 mark ‘How far do you agree’ question.
• Slide 23: More from RA Resources

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