Friday, 29 June 2018

Healthy Prisons - A Contradiction in Terms?

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Finally published today is the report of an investigation I’ve undertaken into the life-threatening attempted suicide of a remand prisoner...
Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Reducing Short Sentences for Women and Petty Offenders: Willing the Means as Well as the End.

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At his excellent Bill McWilliams Memorial Lecture in Cambridge yesterday, Professor Rob Canton invited us to consider the case of Rita, a d...
Tuesday, 26 June 2018

Questions for the Minister

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I don’t know if its still the case, but people appearing before Parliamentary Select Committees used to get a friendly phone call a few da...
Saturday, 23 June 2018

Prison Reform around the World: The Need for an Alternative Approach

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The international community has been showing welcome interest in how to improve prisons. A new International Committee of the Red Cross (I...
Saturday, 9 June 2018

Yet More Council of Despair

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Hopes that penal policy might be taking a less punitive turn took a blow this week when the Sentencing Council issued its long awaited gui...
Friday, 1 June 2018

Here We Go Again : Another Type of Youth Custody A Step Closer

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The ‘ How to Apply Guide’ published today sounds like it’s to help young people or their parents get a place in one of the Government’s...
Thursday, 31 May 2018

A Tale of Two Cities

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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...