Unlocking Potential

    Earlier this week,  Justice Secretary Michael Gove told the House of Commons , not for the first time, that he wanted to see prison gov...

  Yesterday the Sentencing Council published an assessment of the impact which its Guideline on Burglary has had on sentencing trends since ...

I couldn’t watch last night’s Panorama investigation of Medway Secure Training Centre (STC). I’m working abroad this week, ironically at a ...

Just as 2015 started with an unnecessary and potentially counterproductive idea for criminal justice reform – Lord Leveson’s suggestion tha...

Make justice accessible: Mobile courts in Abu Dhabi Develop useful alternatives to prison that build skills and serve the pub...

What should we make of 2015 as far as penal policy is concerned?   The new government has promised radical reforms at the heart of their ag...

Among the wealth of information provided by the latest edition of the Prison Reform Trust’s excellent Bromley briefing , two findings stand...