ACCT - Assessment, Care in Custody and Teamwork, monitoring procedure of a suicidal or auto-agressive prisoner.

CAT - United Nations Convention Against Torture

CCTV - Closed-Circuit Television

CNA - Certified National Accommodation, quality standard of British Prison Service accommodation

CPT - European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

CQC - Care Quality Commission

CRC - Community Rehabilitation Companies businesses supervising the reintegration of people into civil society

CRC - Community Rehabilitation Company

CSRA - Cell Sharing Risk Assessment

DAS - Detention Advice Service aid and advice agency for immigrants at risk of detention or in detention

DDC - Deputy Director of Custody

DTO - Detention and Training Order, prison sentence applicable to minors between the age of 12 and 17.

EEA - European Economic Area

EHRC - Equality and Human Rights Commission, a non-departmental public body

FLO - Family Liaison Officer

GP - General Practitioner

HIW - Healthcare Inspectorate Wales

HM - Her Majesty’s

HMIP - Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons

HMP - Her Majesty’s Prison

HMPPS - Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service

ICPR - Institute for Criminal Policy Research

IEP - Incentives and Earned Privileges (for prisoners)

IF - Intensive Fostering

ILP - Individual Learning Plan

IMB - Independent Monitoring Board

IPP - Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection

IRP - Independent Review of Progress

ISS - Intensive Supervision and Surveillance

ISS - Investigation Support Section

IT - Information Technology

ITC - Introduction to Custody

JCWI - Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants: independent organisation for legal support for immigrants and for the fight against discrimination

LHB - Local Health Board

MBU - Mother and Baby Unit

MEP - Member of European Parliament

MoJ - Ministry of Justice

MP - Member of Parliament

NHS - National Health Service

NOMS - National Offender Management Service

NPM - National Preventive Mechanism

Ofsted - Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills

OPCAT - Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, UN convention against torture and other inhuman or degrading sentences or treatment.

PAVA - Pelargonic Acid Vanillylamide

PED - Parole Eligibility Date

PET - Prisoner’s Education Trust, a charity active in the education of prisoners.

POELT - Prison Officer Entry Level Training

PPO - Prisons and Probation Ombudsman

PRT - Prison Reform Trust

PSI - Prison Service Instruction, a publication from the prison administration

PSO - Prison Service Order, a publication from the prison administration revoking or replacing a PSI publication

RLC - Refugee Legal Centre assistance centre for asylum seekers

ROTL - Release on Temporary Licence, system of allowing a person to leave

RPM - Royal Prerogative of Mercy

SCH - Secure Children’s Home

SLA - Service Level Agreement

SPL - Special Purpose Licences, Special permission to leave

SPT - Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture

STC - Secure Training Centre

UK - United Kingdom

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

YCS - Youth Custody Service, service in charge of the detention of minors

YJB - Youth Justice Board

YOI - Young Offender Institution

YOT - Youth Offending Team

YRO - Youth Rehabilitation Order