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Thursday, 19 March 2026
Are Courts Ready for the Sentencing Act?
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With the prison population almost 1,200 higher than it was when the Sentencing Act became law in January, its easy to see why the governm...
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
What Will Court Reform Mean for the Prison Population?
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It’s good to see the House of Commons Justice Committee asking the government tough questions about the controversial Courts and Tribunals...
Thursday, 12 February 2026
Youth Justice - A Missed Opportunity?
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There are some things to welcome in the government’s youth justice policy statement presented to Parliament today. Improved funding arr...
Wednesday, 7 January 2026
Prison Problems Old and New
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HMP Dartmoor was first built because overcrowding, poor sanitation and lack of fresh air on the floating hulks off Plymouth were causing s...
Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Fire Alert
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Surprising perhaps given the pressure on prisons that today’s alert to the Lord Chancellor about the appalling outcomes at HMP Swaleside ...
Thursday, 4 December 2025
Courting Trouble
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The prison population projections out today are produced to aid policy development, capacity planning and resource allocation within the ...
Friday, 14 November 2025
Which Way for Youth Custody?
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Radical stuff from the Childrens Commissioner in her Longford Lecture this week- urging that Young Offender Institutions are closed now, ...
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