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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…

It took a global pandemic to deliver reductions in the prison population