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Staff shortages responsible for rise in prison suicides
Staff shortages and increases in the prison population are responsible for the rise in prison suicides according to the annual report by the Chief Inspector of...
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Imran Khan speaks on police corruption, surveillance and racism
Leading lawyer and activist Imran Khan last night spoke about police corruption, surveillance and racism, as he gave the 23rd Eve Saville Memorial Lecture.
Imran started by talking about the unprovoked racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in a south London...
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Warehousing children in prisons is wrong
A letter published today in The Daily Telegraph criticises government plans to build the largest children's prison in Europe, describing it as 'bad for...
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Corporate welfare costs taxpayer £85 billion per year
Aditya Chakrabortty of The Guardian reports on the huge state subsidies paid out to businesses in the context of consistent...
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Breadline Britain now the reality for many working people
Richard Bilton, reporting for Panorama, describes how, despite persistent claims by mainstream politicians to be 'on the side of hard-working people', the majority of the poor...
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Our September ebulletin is out now
This is the September 2014 edition of our ebulletin.
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?
The 'ethnic penalty' and punishment
This month saw the launch of a new strand of the Justice Matters project focusing on tackling the '...
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Would like to meet... web designers
We are creating a website to support a new initiative promoting trauma-informed practice in women’s prisons across the UK.
The website will celebrate success and convey an optimism about the possibility of real change.
If you think you have what it takes,...
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Warrior cops to police the poor?
Our Director Richard Garside was quoted on the Aljazeera website on Tuesday talking about what a militarised police force says about society.
Richard explained...
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A roundtable on reducing poverty in groups most at risk
What can the international evidence tell us about strategies for reducing poverty among groups most at risk? A roundtable on 17 November will engage with...
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Cancelling probation contracts could cost £300-£400m
Unprecendented clauses in probation contracts which guarantee private providers their projected profits in the event of early cancellation could cost the taxpayer £300-400m, reports...
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Report on global violence
An assessment paper commissioned by the Copenhagen Consensus Centre has revealed that violence between individuals kills 9 times more people than wars...
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Liverpool conference
The Centre's Publications Manager, Tammy McGloughlin, and Research and Policy Assistant, Matt Ford, went to Liverpool John Moores University on 4 September for the 42nd Annual Conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance & Social Control.
This year's theme was ...