Unlocking Potential

  If Labour forms the next government what will happen to sentencing and the prison population? Much will depend on the outcomes of two revi...

  The General Election on 4 July 2024 is the second since the UK settled the prisoner voting cases in the  European Court of Human Rights . ...

  In the famous words of Victor Hugo, “he who opens a school door closes a prison”. What would he have made of Oasis Restore the first secur...

Reshaping the approach to offending by young people formed an important strand of New Labour’s domestic policy agenda from 1997-2010. This w...

  It should now be clear to all that the prison system is facing a very serious operational crisis.   It’s at its most acute in local prison...

Amidst the headlong rush to build enough prison places to keep pace with demand, it’s perhaps surprising to see the UK government pause thei...

  The sixth World Congress of Probation and Parole brought more than 400 people from 61 countries to The Hague this week to ponder the futu...