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Government policy 'inhumane' and 'dysfunctional'
The offender management system in prisons in England and Wales is dysfunctional and should be subject to a fundamental review, the Chief Inspectors of Prisons and Probation have concluded...
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Prisons: the nightmare before Christmas?
Wales Online reports that Plaid Cymru Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd MP has branded plans for a new 'super' prison in Wrexham a 'nightmare'. A National Audit Office report states...
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All you need to know about poverty
Chris Goulden, Head of the Poverty Team at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, has posted ten charts about poverty in the UK on the Buzzfeed website. The data is drawn from...
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Justice Matters partners event announced
The aim of the Justice Matters initiative, Richard Garside explains in his latest comment piece:
'is to create the broadest possible collaboration of individuals and organisations committed to downsizing fundamentally the criminal justice system in the United Kingdom and to
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Prison maintenance contracts up for grabs
The Financial Times reports that the Ministry of Justice will put prison maintenance contracts out to tender 'within days'.
The contracts, worth an estimated £100m per year, will...
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Let them make phone calls...
The National Audit Office (NAO) praises three new prisons built by the National Offender Management Service, in a new report out today.
According to...
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Police accused of fiddling crime figures, again
In the latest hearing before the House of Commons Public Administration Committee Professor Mike Hough of Birkbeck, University of London and a member of the Crime Statistics Advisory Board (CSAB) said that some of the falls in police recorded crime levels was down to police misrecording crime...
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Figuring out the prison estate plans
The rationale behind the recent prison estate plans for young adults and for women is straightforward to understand, suggests Helen Mills at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies in her latest blog...
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EU rules on air pollution too lax, according to new study
The Independent reports on a new study published in The Lancet, which found that...
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UK's reputation for respecting the rule of law at risk
In his latest comment piece on the Centre's website, Professor Ed Cape argues that the coalition government's negative attitude to fair trial rights and attacks on legal aid and lawyers risks undermining international...
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Transforming Rehabilitation: evolution or revolution?
Chris Grayling, Secretary of State for Justice, and Jeremy Wright, Under-secretary of State, yesterday gave evidence to the Justice Committee on the Transforming Rehabilitation agenda, which Mr Grayling repeatively referred to as an 'evolution not a revolution'.
Mr Grayling said that the...
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Why are we obsessed with Criminal obsessions?
Criminal obsessions: why harm matters more than...