Comments & Speeches

However, as a witness in the long running Serious Fraud Office investigations, I was obliged to remain silent while court cases were pursued against G4S and Serco employees.

The 1823 Gaol Act stipulated that women’s prisons would house women and be entirely staffed by women (and likewise men’s prisons by men).

Fast forward two centuries and the presence of male prison staff in female prisons in the UK is now taken for granted. Yet, there has been no parliamentary discussion of the introduction of men into women’s prisons (males who identify as women excepted) and little to no questioning by penal reform lobbying and campaign groups.

In 2015 he visited Germany with a group of fellow Americans which included a governor, another district attorney, several prominent academics, and a convicted murderer from Detroit who spent seven years in solitary confinement.  Following his visit he produced a very illuminating TED talk reflecting on history, prisons and human rights.

It concerned the decision of Dominic Raab to try to control the conduct of parole proceedings and to prescribe how his officials provide evidence to the Parole Board.

Dominic Raab is Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice. He is under investigation for several bullying complaints during different ministerial posts. Coverage of this is more prevalent than coverage of his performance in his current role. This is about the latter.

From now on, the statement said, such offenders would not be housed in women’s prisons if they had male genitalia or had committed sexual or violent crimes.