Unlocking Potential

  Last month inspectors reported on a prison where “a variety of well-embedded arrangements aimed at keeping residents and staff safe were i...

  The Government’s response to February’s Justice Committee report on Children and Young People in Custody seems to raise fresh doubts that...

  MPs on the Justice Committee heard shocking evidence this week about failures at Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre. Bad enough that child...

Two must read reports this week giving voice to the bleak experiences of men, women and children locked up in prisons during the pandemic. ...

  Criminal courts should take account of age and lack of maturity when imposing sentences on people between the ages of 18-25. Guidelines s...

    To give effect to its manifesto commitment to introduce “ tougher sentencing for the worst offenders”, the Government has sought both to...

  Ironically, a year which saw children in custody spend huge amounts of time locked up in their cells, opened with the Chief Inspector of P...