Unlocking Potential

  Boris Johnson can’t see any reason why lawbreakers “shouldn't be out there in one of those fluorescent-jacketed chain gangs visibly pa...

  Mixed messages last week about the prospects for the governments flagship Secure Schools initiative. The Infrastructure and Projects Autho...

  The task of finding alternative placements for the 33 children held at the unsafe Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre (STC ) looks more chal...

  The Justice Secretary’s decision last week effectively to close Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre marks another low in the recent history...

  There’s hope among reformers that harrowing BBC   drama Time could trigger a much-needed rational debate about Britain’s prisons . If not...

  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...