Comment

Extreme will have long-term and serious consequences for the wellbeing of prisoners

A long-term vision for sentencing, not short-term fixes, is what is needed

The sentencing White Paper is full of proposals, but short on rationale

Whilst I do recall an irate prisoner during a prison visit threatening to dispatch my then line…

An opportunity to develop reasoned, evidenced and emotionally-literate policy and practice

The phrase, 'all coppers are bastards' often shortened to a pejorative acronym, was very…

The Woolf Report was never an adequate blueprint for the future

Time to shine a light on the impact of racialised justice in the UK

I have arranged dozens of headline speakers over many years and thought that I might be allowed…

When it comes to containing Covid in prison, there is a better way

There is nothing ‘natural’ about prisoners dying from preventable illnesses

We should be repairing the fissures in our society rather than to punishing those at the margins…