Out of Trouble is a Prison Reform Trust campaign. The Prison Reform Trust is an independent charity which aims to create a just, humane and effective penal system. It works to raise awareness of the system, by informing prisoners, staff and the wider public and by influencing parliament, government and officials towards reform.

Penelope Gibbs is Director of Out of Trouble. She feels passionately that imprisoning teenagers and young people (as well as many others) is wrong and wasteful, of both lives and money. Penelope arrived in criminal justice via advertising, radio producing and strategising. Her interest in injustice was awakened when she worked on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and spoke to fathers angry with the family courts and parents horrified at being blamed for their children’s crimes. She decided to create change by becoming a magistrate, at which point she realised that the criminal justice system has a very limited ability to improve lives. Her blog follows her work trying to prevent children and young people being locked up.

Jenny Talbot is Out of Trouble's Programme Manager, working with a particular focus on young people with learning disabilities and mental illness or mental health problems. Until recently Jenny managed No One Knows, a UK-wide programme led by the Prison Reform Trust which focused on offenders with learning difficulties and learning disabilities. Full details on the No One Knows programme, including all publications, can be found here. Before joining PRT, Jenny was Chief Executive of the Institute for Citizenship.

Rebecca Nadin is Campaigns Officer for Out of Trouble. Before joining the Prison Reform Trust she was Parliamentary researcher for an MP who campaigned in support of runaway and missing children, many of whom end up at risk on the streets. Having been at the receiving end of numerous campaigns to influence policy and practice whilst in Westminster, Rebecca joined the programme in 2009 with the aim of using her campaigning experience to help reduce child and youth imprisonment in the UK.