Unlocking Potential

  One of the most troubling findings in today’s Independent Monitoring Report (IMB) on HMP Lowdham Grange is the huge increase in cell fire...

  Not surprisingly, we’re seeing a plethora of proposals for new Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood about how to solve the prison crisis. If ...

  If the new government’s most urgent task on prisons is to navigate an immediate way through the current population crisis, they should als...

  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...