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PC James Patrick, who last year told the House of Commons Public Administration Committee that the police fiddle crime statistics, has resigned.
PC Patrick, who was facing disciplinary proceedings as a result of his revelations, said he resigned...
Nick Hardwick, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, has described how conditions in Feltham Young Offenders Institution have 'deteriorated markedly' and the prison 'as a whole was an unacceptably violent place', in the March issue of Criminal Justice Matters magazine. Levels of violence...
On Monday we published UK Justice Policy Review 3, the latest edition in our annual series, supported by The Hadley Trust, tracking tracking year-on-year criminal justice and social welfare developments across the UK....
The March 2014 issue of Criminal Justice Matters is now available and contains a series of articles exploring the use of electronic monitoring (EM) in the UK and abroad.
Guest editor, Professor Mike Nellis, of the University of Strathclyde considers the role of the private sector...
Government ministers and civil servants reguarly extol the virtues of a 'level playing field' when it comes to the delivery of public services. Neither the public, private nor voluntary sectors should have an unfair advantage when it comes to competing on cost, quality or delivery,...
MPs have called for penalties to be invoked against Atos Healthcare and Capital Business Services for their delays in assessing disabled and sick people's entitlements to Personal Independence Payments (PIPs).
The House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee cited figures showing...
Contracts for prison and probation work in the UK are dominated by a few multinationals and large voluntary sector organisations, according to new research by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
The research, published in the...
The number of deaths due to so-called legal highs has been misrepresented, according to Professor David Nutt, chair of the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs.
Writing in The Lancet with long-term collaborator Dr...
The government is failing to manage contracts with a host of private companies delivering a range of services to departments and members of the public, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ...
As part of our Justice Matters initiative we are challenging people to think about a criminal justice practice, policy or institution to abolish or abstain from.
It can be conventional or unconventional – the choice is up to you. The challenge isn’t just about abolishing something. We are keen to build alternatives – so we want to encourage people to put forward ideas for something positive.
It's such an obvious one... what
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A day after Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said that G4s may still be prosecuted over claims that it overcharged on electronic monitoring contracts, the company has...
Troubled security company G4S may still face criminal prosecution over its alleged overcharging on electronic monitoring and prisoner escort contracts, The...
