Unlocking Potential

  Lots to learn at this week’s annual conference of the International Corrections and Prisons Association i n Belgium- including for me that...

  Lots of historical precedents for Alex Chalk’s policy manoeuvrings today. William Whitelaw introducing short sharp shock detention cent...

  I’m currently involved in work on a strategy to prevent and combat prison overcrowding. Its themes are familiar enough - keeping people ou...

  I’m not surprised by much in penal policy but today’s plan to rent prison space abroad is astonishing in many ways. Politically, the hea...

  The government’s stock response to the recent flurry of interest in the state of prisons is that they are in the midst of building 20,000 ...

    When late lamented Lord Ramsbotham was appointed Chief Inspector of Prisons in 1995 he was told  “that a good day for the Prison Service...

  Last month Justice Secretary Alex Chalk told MPs that “One of the last things that a Prisons Minister or Lord Chancellor worth their salt...