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Minimum price for alcohol to be abandoned

The home secretary Theresa May will announce next week that plans for a minimum alcohol price

Universal credit is simple: work more and get paid less

Polly Toynbee takes a look at the universal credit

G4S facing serious fraud office investigation over tagging charges

The Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has told parliament that the Serious Fraud Office is to inve

Ex-US president Jimmy Carter on drugs sentencing

Thanks to Incarceration Report for sharing this comment by Jimmy Carter on drug offence sentencin

Utopian thinking

We thought this new book applying utopian thinking to questions of crime and justice

Public health statistics could be scrapped to save money

There's a worrying story in today's Guardian claiming that the Office for Nati

No business locking them up

Our director Richard Garside argues that the British state

And the prize goes to

We were delighted to hear that our Open University colleague Dr Deborah Drake has been awarded th

Parents of Feltham children 'right to be terrified'

'If you were a parent of a child in Feltham you would be right to be terrified', the chief inspec

Sugar supplier's bitter sweet legacy

British sugar giant Tate & Lyle imports sugar from a Cambodian-based supplier implicated in l

One quarter of police stop and searches illegal

A report from the Inspectorate of Constabulary has 

End racism this generation

The Runnymede Trust has launched a new three year campaign