David Scott reports that local opponents of a new mega-prison are joining a growing campaign against the government’s prison building plans
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Analysis and comment on current developments by the Centre's staff, supporters and associates
03/04/17
The Prisons and Courts Bill threatens to create more pressure on people to plead guilty, whether they are or not, argues Penelope Gibbs
30/03/17
The undercover policing of political protest groups and social movements has generated urgent questions. But thus far few answers, argues Helen Mills
24/03/17
We need innovative design and the end of prison as we know it, argues Richard Rowley
15/03/17
Maureen Mansfield writes about a new campaign for a women's building on the Holloway prison site
07/03/17
Stephen Pryor offers some consequences of enshrining offender reform into law
06/03/17
Leandro Ayres França discusses the development of organized crime and a chaotic prison situation
24/02/17
Susie Hulley, Ben Crewe and Serena Wright profile their research on the traumatic impact of imprisonment on women
23/02/17
With the future of the Holloway prison site yet to be determined, Sarah Uncles assesses what has happened to sites of other prisons that have closed