Wednesday, 29 January 2020

Prison Broadly Fails

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Not the words of the Howard League or Prison Reform Trust but ex Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan Howe a self-styled “hard-nosed enforcer” w...
Tuesday, 21 January 2020

Children in Custody- Time for Separation from the Prison Service

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The Chief Inspector of Prisons has said he does not believe that children under 18 should be held in prison.   “The Prison Service is esse...
Sunday, 19 January 2020

Sentencing on the Box- More Confidence or More Prisoners ?

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What will be the impact of televising judges’ sentencing remarks in the Crown Court? Justice Secretary Robert Buckland and Lord Chief Just...
Friday, 27 December 2019

A Year - and Decade - of Penal Policy

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In a curious symmetry, penal policy in 2019 has mirrored the decade as a whole.     The year opened with then Prisons Minister Rory ...
Sunday, 22 December 2019

Back Home? Why Sentencing, Prison and Probation Should Stay in the Ministry of Justice

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The Johnson government is reportedly considering a shift in responsibility for sentencing, prisons and probation from the Ministry of Just...
Thursday, 21 November 2019

Which Prisoners Can Vote on December 12th?

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December’s General Election will be the first since the UK settled the prisoner voting cases in the European Court of Human Rights . In th...
Saturday, 16 November 2019

Tagging Along

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Boris Johnson’s efforts to increase prison time served by serious sexual and violent offenders by way of a Statutory Instrument were stymi...