Comment
24 July 2020

Some 60 per cent of those imprisoned each year in England and Wales serve sentences of under one...

Comment
23 July 2020

Next week we will release the latest tranche of raw data from part of our survey on coronavirus...

Comment
17 July 2020

Earlier this week, the Victims' Commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC decried the “catastrophic”...

Comment
16 July 2020

Some basic maths proposes that if an adult defendant in a magistrates court receives a sentence...

Comment
15 July 2020

Gareth Myatt also said he couldn’t breathe. He was told by prison officers who were restraining...

Comment
13 July 2020

The Black Lives Matter movement has called attention, yet again, to police racism: to understand...

Comment
10 July 2020

“Mum phones every day. I cannot explain how it makes me feel. It makes me feel sad and confused...

Comment
9 July 2020

The keen-eyed prison population watchers amongst you will have noticed the sharp fall in the...

Comment
6 July 2020

Whilst I was reading Michael Tonry's timely and humane critique of many of the more damaging and...

Comment
3 July 2020

Last weekend's reannouncement of plans to waste £2.5 billion building four new prisons brings...

Comment
2 July 2020

Over 60 per cent of all those sentenced to prison in England and Wales are subject to a sentence...

Comment
1 July 2020

On Sunday it was reported that four new prisons will be built as part of a wider government...