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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 emotions…
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
In my monthly reflection pieces for this website, I evoke vignettes drawn from my past probation…
The Covid pandemic offers the potential to open up justice in new and positive ways