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The challenge of an ageing prison population
Scotland is not alone in facing the challenge of an ageing prison population
Fearful of the prison regime
This month Mike Guilfoyle reflects on Erwin who served time in prison
Prison safety and reform: When?
Joe Sim writes on the grim legacy likely to be left by the White Paper on prison reform
Tough talk costs lives
The endless calls for tough community sentences do more harm than good
Privatising justice is a slippery slope
Profits should not be prioritised above the care and rights of detainees
Criminalise or ‘disappear’ the young? No path to a ‘Great Meritocracy’
Policies by successive governments leave many 16-17-year-olds with stark choices
Prisons cannot be places of rehabilitation
Legitimise social inclusion, not prisons
Fix room for drug addicts overdue but welcome
A safe injection facility in Glasgow is a positive first step
The double standards in probation
Mike Guilfoyle remembers Ramon who was the victim of an unforgiving decision
Let them fail
The government should let the struggling privatised probation companies fail
Probation reforms risk breaking relationships
Mike Guilfoyle remembers 'Casey' who he supervised
Five prisoners a day
The prison population is falling five a day. Let’s keep going
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