Unlocking Potential

Sir Martin Narey’s call for prisons to “Forget Rehabilitation” was no doubt designed t o provoke a reaction and in that the former head...

When Boris Johnson announced in August that 10,000 new prison places would be built, commentators- myself include d - were quick to poi...

Today, the UN General Assembly will hear the results of the Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. Worldwide, at least 410,000 ar...

As an unusual Party Conference season draws to a close, what have we learned about where the parties stand on criminal justice and in par...

There was some relief yesterday when the new Prime Minister placed the Justice brief in the experienced and relatively liberal hands of Ro...

Soon to be ex Justice Secretary David Gauke rightly told us in a farewell speech last week that a short spell in prison doesn’t protect t...

Back in the early 1990’s, in one of the more disreputable periods in my career, I worked in the Home Office helping to design the new Secur...