Comment
24 March 2020

On 5 March 2020 the Policing Minister Kit Malthouse hosted a Tackling Crime Forum, with Police...

Comment
11 March 2020

Our prisons are awful places.

Comment
11 March 2020

Before the Strangeways protests, children were incarcerated with adults.

Comment
1 March 2020

Having just read a keenly awaited book that offers a lively and compellingly original scholarly...

Comment
27 February 2020

In recent times there have been increasing calls for zero tolerance of physical violence in...

Comment
24 February 2020

On the first day of the Strangeways protest, in April 1990, one prisoner declared that, ‘We are...

Comment
14 February 2020

In 1988, Partners of Prisoners (POPS) established itself in Manchester as a local support group...

Comment
7 February 2020

Since the first national penitentiary, Millbank, opened on British soil in 1816, the debate in...

Comment
3 February 2020

The great Angela Davis wrote in Are Prisons Obsolete?:

Comment
20 January 2020

Tougher criminal justice sanctions are often advocated by politicians who say this reflects...

Comment
15 January 2020

On 27 November 2019, the Supreme Court gave judgment in R (Hemmati and others) v Secretary of...

Comment
6 January 2020

I recently read a challenging but stimulating scholarly book by David Hayes - Confronting Penal...