Senior Tory accidentally exposes his own party’s appalling record on prison spaces
His gotcha question spectacularly backfires…
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Natalie Bennett: Schools, prison, welfare: they’re still Victorian in style
Social innovation is possible. It is happening in a fast-changing, multi-challenge world of environmental and social crisis. Just not in the UK.
How racism in the criminal justice system harms women’s chances of finding work
Black women with criminal records face harsher barriers to employment, a new report has found.
Labour calls for Kuwait to free unfairly-imprisoned Russian woman
Labour says EU should protect human rights all the time, not just in headline-grabbing cases
Our prison service is failing women – and it’s costing lives
As an inquest reports on fatal failings at New Hall Prison, it’s clear that mental health care in our prison system is at breaking point.
The cracks are growing in the UK’s privatised prison and probation service
Three years on from part-privatisation, staff and organisations working in the criminal justice sector are struggling to cope
Nearly half of boys in young offenders institutes are black or ethnic minority
New report finds highest rate since 2001
Telegraph carries Saudi propaganda to blast Jeremy Corbyn
Ambassador lectures Britain – but leaves out Michael Gove’s role in prison deal U-turn
Another damning report questions why we are still treating torture victims like criminals
Almost a quarter of detainees at Dorset immigration removal centre did not understand why they had been taken there
Vulnerable women shouldn’t have to get arrested to get support
Two in five women sent to prison in a single year will be unconvicted