Hooper Walker
Prison and Criminal Justice Specialists
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About Us
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Roma Hooper worked in the disability field for many years as the assistant director for Contact a Family, a charity supporting families with disabled children. At the invitation of Feltham Young Offenders, she helped establish Radio Feltham in 1994, the UK’s first prison radio station. Roma has a Masters in Criminal Justice Policy from the LSE and she went on to become the first voluntary sector coordinator at HMYOI Feltham for two years until 2003. She received a commendation for her work at the 2006 Lord Longford awards for services to social justice and penal reform. In 2006 Roma set up the Prison Radio Association to expand prison radio skills training in the UK and establish a national prison radio station. She was appointed Chair of the Griffins Society in 2008, which works on behalf of female prisoners, and is Vice Chair of the Foundation Training Company which specialises in resettlement and reintegration of offenders. She co-produced the two Clinks national resource packs to support volunteering in prisons and the community and until recently was Director of Hooper Walker Community Interest Company.
In 2008, Roma set up Make Justice Work, a campaign to create a shift in the public's attitude towards the punishment and rehabilitation of offenders. We aim to shine a spotlight on our current penal system, discuss what works and what doesn’t. |
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Dr. Roma Walker was formerly Deputy Director of the Inside Out Trust, a leading penal voluntary sector organisation. She gained an MSc in Criminal Justice Studies, and a doctorate relating to penal reform.
Roma has wide ranging experience of voluntary sector agencies working within the criminal justice system having been a trustee of Clinks, which develops the partnerships between voluntary and community-based organisations and the Prison and Probation Services in England and Wales, and a trustee of The Revolving Doors Agency which supports those with mental health problems who come into contact with the criminal justice system. In 2002, she co-edited 'Prisons and the Voluntary Sector: A Bridge into the Community'. Roma has also contributed to the Prisons Handbook. She wrote the Prison Service 'Guidelines for Voluntary and Community Sector Staff and Volunteers'. In 2004 she undertook a Council of Europe project relating to prison conditions in Turkey. She was a magistrate for five years an is now an Independent member of Sussex Police Authority. |
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