Unlocking Potential

In February,Theresa May quipped t hat when she was at the Home Office she used to say of Justice Secretary Ken Clarke “I locked ’em up and h...

One of many recent disappointments for prison reformers was how little the Liberal Democrats were able to influence criminal justice policy...

In the midst of Jeremy Corbyn’s radical plans to transform Britain, it’s perhaps surprising to learn that Labour is still “ tough on crim...

Chances are we won’t get much about criminal justice in any of the manifestos. But Labour’s surprisingly Blairite promise of 10,000 more p...

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

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...

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