Wednesday, 19 April 2017

What's on the criminal justice cards from a new May government?

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More shocking revelations on prisons, this time from the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture who visited a range of...
Tuesday, 28 March 2017

I Told You So

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American novelist Gore Vidal described ‘I told you so’ as ‘the four most beautiful words in our common language’. But for those of us who pr...
Thursday, 16 March 2017

Prison : Tide Going out or Calm before the Storm ?

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Two reports out this week might give cause for guarded optimism about the use of imprisonment throughout the world. The Council of Europ ...
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...