Unlocking Potential

Today’s inspection report on HMP Leicester gave a hint that prisons might perhaps be turning a corner. Outcomes on all four of the Inspec...

Is the Government finally grasping the nettle on Prison Reform?   If dynamic duo may not quite be the right description for Justice Secret...

How should courts decide what to do with children in trouble? Sir James Munby the President of the Family Division told a seminar held by...

Judged last year to be “ on the edge of coping with the young people it was charged with holding ,” the youth custodial estate was placed ...

All’s not well at the Sentencing Council. Chairman Lord Justice Treacy has had to remind judges and magistrates to use suspended prison se...

Back in 2002, when I was member of the Youth Justice Board, then Chair Lord Warner opened one of our meetings by saying he expected we wer...

The Divisional Court Judgment on the Worboys case raises a number of puzzles. The Court ruled that the Parole Board’s decision to relea...