prisons
Why are so many children being held for so long in segregation?
Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, reports on the worrying figures on the number of children held in segregation.
Review of Cutting Crime and Building Confidence: Empowering Victims and Communities
This emphasises Labour’s need to put victims at the heart of our criminal justice system, and is a call to root the justice system in the community.
Peter Hitchens: Bring back 19th-century prisons
Far-right polemicist Peter Hitchens has said he'd like prisons to return to how they were in the 19th-century, and said he "doesn't believe" in rehabilitation.
Clarke’s problem is not that he’s tough or soft – it’s that he’s a cutter
Rehabilitation costs money. A 'prison works' strategy costs money - as Clarke says it costs more to send a convict to jail than a schoolboy to Eton. The problem with Clarke is not that he's soft or tough - its that he's a cutter.
Cuts to probation service could pave the way to disaster
The Howard League for Penal Reform has today published its response to the government’s justice green paper, 'Breaking the cycle: effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders'.
Express attack on Labour’s law and order record fails to report fall in crime
The Express reported today that 75 per cent of the ‘most serious crimes’ were not solved under the labour govt - yet failed to report crime overall fell by 43%.