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Thursday, 30 August 2018

Taking Stock: More Local Control of Probation ?

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Among its wonderful wealth of exhibits, Oxford’s Pitt-Rivers Museum includes a set of village stocks, originally placed on the footpath in...
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Tuesday, 21 August 2018

Why we need a new Woolf Inquiry into Prisons

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When Lord Woolf inquired into the 1990 Strangeways riot and those which followed, he concluded that prisons need to keep three dimensions ...
Friday, 17 August 2018

Headlines and Deadlines

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Prisons Minister Rory Stewart is making headlines by offering to resign if his “ Ten Prisons Project ” doesn’t succeed in cutting levels o...
Friday, 3 August 2018

Private Communications

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New liaison arrangements between courts and probation services came into force last week.   Much of Probation Instruction 5/2018 - which l...
Friday, 27 July 2018

Back to the Future? Where Next for Probation.

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What to make of today’s announcement about the future shape of probation services ? Is it as Russell Webster pronounced the end of Transf...
Wednesday, 11 July 2018

A Fresh Crackdown on Crime in Prison- if Only

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Many of the great and the good of the prison reform world gathered yesterday morning at Church House to hear Justice Secretary David Gauke...
Sunday, 8 July 2018

Questions of Sentencing

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An appearance this week in Parliament for the Chair of the Sentencing Council, who’s up before the Justice Committee as part of its inq...
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Independent researcher and consultant on criminal and youth justice and prisons, co-founder of Justice and Prisons, working in UK and abroad.
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