Juliet Lyon, Director of Prison Reform Trust
Juliet Lyon is director of the Prison Reform Trust. Previously Juliet was associate director of Trust for the Study of Adolescence. On commission to the Prison Service, she produced the first specialist training for staff working with young people and with women in custody. She worked for fifteen years in mental health, managing Richmond Fellowship halfway houses, and in education, first as teacher in charge of a psychiatric unit school and then as head of community education in a comprehensive. Up to 2010 Juliet was a Women’s National Commissioner for England and Wales. She is currently secretary general of Penal Reform International and vice president of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
