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29 January 2021

This week the UK passed the grim milestone of over 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.

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19 January 2021

To those who believe that transwomen are women, the answer is simple: transwomen must serve...

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15 January 2021

Should prisoners and prison staff be among the priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination?

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14 January 2021

The function of the ‘mirror’ in psychoanalytic theory is, very simply, that the earliest ways in...

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14 January 2021

Since my last update in December, HMPPS have released another two weeks worth of data on...

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12 January 2021

Having taken a few hours off from festive activities I reached for a richly original,...

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20 December 2020

Here’s another update on the second wave of the pandemic in prisons as the Ministry of Justice...

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18 December 2020

Is it the job of the Chief Inspector of Prisons to lobby the government to build new prisons?...

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17 December 2020

If you are reading this, you probably already know at least some of the facts about women in...

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15 December 2020

As promised back in July, I’m revisiting my blog on the drivers behind the drop in prison...

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14 December 2020

Seasoned observers of Ministry of Justice White Papers since 2010 could be forgiven for thinking...

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10 December 2020

‘Female prisoners must not share the same accommodation as male prisoners’.