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Government guarantees private prisons will not face closure
Government ministers and civil servants regularly extol the virtues of a 'level playing field' when it comes…
Big players dominate prison and probation contracts
Contracts for prison and probation work in the UK are dominated by a few multinationals and large voluntary…
G4S repays over £100 million to settle tagging dispute
The company's Chief Executive,
File on Four covers probation privatisation
Yesterday BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw investigated the government's plans to privatise…
What's going on with the crime rate?
There has been a lot of discussion over recent months about the ongoing decline in the official crime rate.
Tagging - from criminal justice to 'social care'?
Journalist Kate Belgrave offers a run down of recent press announcements and the worrying expansion of…
Government policy 'inhumane' and 'dysfunctional'
The offender management system in prisons in England and Wales is dysfunctional and should be subject to a…
Let them make phone calls...
The National Audit Office (NAO) praises three new prisons built by the National Offender Management Service,…
UK's reputation for respecting the rule of law at risk
In his latest comment piece on the Centre's website, 
Why are we obsessed with Criminal obsessions?
Criminal obsessions: why harm matters more than crime, published back in 2008, is still hitting the top…
Grayling: 'If you break the law you will be punished'
In a bid to improve 'public confidence' in the criminal justice system, Justice Minister Chris Grayling has…
What's so special about you?
Back in 2005, the then MP for Henley Boris Johnson wrote in 
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