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Helping released prisoners get jobs is good for them and good for society

The government should prioritise children’s welfare, not consign them to extreme lockdown

To understand police racism, we need to examine how routine practices are discriminatory

Covid lockdown delivered falls in the prison population. It probably won’t last

Matt Ford looks at the dynamics behind the sharp fall in the prison population

The memorably alliterative phrase used was 'punitive passions pulsate' and the unsettling…

There can be few better examples of misguided priorities than building more prisons

Is short sentence reform the means of delivering a smaller prison population?

What are the implications of the announcement that four new prisons are to be built?

Are we heading towards a world of mass surveillance?

We need more youth clubs and better health provision, not more police and prisons

Policies that target individuals also stigmatise the communities in which they live