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Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Straw in the Wind?

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   Probably 25 years ago, I was part of a delegation from NACRO that trooped along to see New Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary Jack Straw to d...
Thursday, 12 November 2020

Same Old, Same Old?

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  There are some useful if narrow recommendations in the first part of the Justice Committee report on children in custody published today....
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Saturday, 10 October 2020

Rules Don’t Apply

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Friday’s Sun i ncluded a strongly worded comment piece lambasting Covid policy as driven by “Matt Hancock, a fanatic, and Boris Johnson, a m...
Wednesday, 16 September 2020

A Game of Two Halves

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When Justice Secretary Robert Buckland finally overcame technical glitches to give h is sentencing speech at the Centre for Social Justic...
Sunday, 13 September 2020

The Impulse to Punish

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Depressing if predictable trailing of the forthcoming Sentencing White Paper today, with Justice Secretary Robert Buckland telling Sun rea...
Friday, 28 August 2020

Consulting Position

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Last month the Ministry of Justice l aunched a consultation on doubling from 12 months to two years the maximum sentence for common assau...
Wednesday, 5 August 2020

Safety In Custody- A Case Behind the Statistics

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Published today is the report of an independent investigation I’ve undertaken for the Ministry of Justice into a very serious assault that...
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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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