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Prisons: deteriorating conditions
Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice has warned about deteriorating conditions inside UK prisons and has called for an Inquiry, reports the BBC.
A Justice Committee report, '...
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Breaking the chainlinks of poverty
Our March issue of criminal justice matters magazine is guest edited by the Centre's Research Director, Dr Roger Grimshaw. This special issue focuses on poverty and...
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Latest issue of the Prison Service Journal now available!
Prison Service Journal issue 218 is now available on our website. This edition is about working with people with personality disorder.
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Shedding light on domestic violence
The British Journal of Criminology has published a special online issue 'Shedding Light: Domestic Violence Research in the BJC (1960-2014)' with all content free to download...
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Does prison work?
On 10 March, JM Moore wrote an article on the Reclaim Justice Network website titled 'Reframing the "Prison Works" debate. For whom and in what ways...
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Solidarity with the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
Our Director, Richard Garside, is one of 190 signatories to a letter in today's Times newspaper (subscription required) in support of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
The...
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Court rules smoking ban should apply to prisons
A prisoner at HMP Wymott has won a landmark ruling against Chris Grayling in the High Court which would force prisons in England and Wales to enforce the smoking ban, BBC News reports.
The Justice Secretary argued that...
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Our February 2015 ebulletin is out now!
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Greek minister's shame at immigration detention
In the current issue of London Review of Books, Daniel Trilling reports on his visit to the notorious Amygdaleza immigration detention centre on the outskirts of Athens.
Last month, the newly-appointed minister for public order, Yannis Panousis, visited Amygdaleza to express his...
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Questions raised about Taser use
Alex Massie commenting on The Spectator website today raises the issue of safety and asks the question 'when did it become ok for the police to electrocute children?' New...
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Policing conference footage now available
On Friday 5 and Saturday 6 February we held a conference in conjunction with The Monitoring Group, Tottenham Rights and Imran Khan & Partners. We heard from a range of moving and inspiring speakers on police corruption, spying, racism and accountability.
Video footage from many of...