Comment

Why does custody visiting fail to achieve anything and how can it be made to work better

Reforms are needed to make police custody visiting independent and effective

What does a successful criminal justice system look like?

People are not supposed to die in prison due to neglect

Connections to resources and to others are key for those leaving prison

The parliamentary routes to IPP reform are few, but they are there

We can’t currently trust what the crime data say about the sex of suspects

Do effective programmes in prison help prisoners, or just offer good PR for prisons

MPs should work together, across the party divide, to end the IPP scandal once and for all

Effective work with defendants requires listening and empathy

If released IPP prisoners are being recalled ‘in line with the policy’, the policy is wrong

A serial offender gets a lucky break following an effective probation intervention