Saturday, 25 February 2017

Youth Custody Changes : Progress or Retreat?

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What’s to be made of the changes announced yesterday to the governance of youth justice in England and Wales?  The stripping from the Youth...
Tuesday, 14 February 2017

The Speech Liz Truss Should Have Given......

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I am glad to be at the Centre for Social Justice because our prison system is anything but socially just. The use of prison inevitably impo...
Thursday, 9 February 2017

NOMS to HMPPS: Rebadging or Real Reform ?

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So the National Offender Management Service is no more, to be replaced by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. Is it a rebadging of...
Thursday, 29 December 2016

A Year in Prisons

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A year that opened with David Cameron championing prison reform as a great progressive cause in British politics ended with a record numb...
Monday, 12 December 2016

The Youth Justice Review : A Plumber responds to an Architect

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There’s a lot to be said for the report of Charlie Taylor’s youth justice review, which has finally been published along with the govern...

Council of Despair?

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How can we reduce the number of prisoners in England and Wales?    The government’s view seems to be that the 86,000 men women and children...
Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Alternatives to Prison - a Shot in the Arm or Shot in the Foot ?

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The movement to cut the prison population picked up steam this morning when the Lord Chief Justice told the Justice Select Committee that “...