How are prison visits arranged?
To best ensure confidentiality, it is recommended that innocence projects should try, as far as possible, to obtain legal, rather than family, visits when interviewing clients in prison. Prison visits and details of interviews with clients should also be documented. Legal visits can be obtained if students are accompanied by a practising lawyer, so supervising lawyers are often happy to accompany students on legal prison visits. Some member projects have negotiated with their local prisons for students to have legal visits with clients/ prisoners, accompanied by a staff supervisor who is not a practicing solicitor/barrister.
