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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

Universal worries about welfare changes

The Guardian reports on a new study by Citizens Advice

From the archive: David Nutt on drug harms

With the government's proposal to ban khat in the news this week,

And your pay this week is... nothing

The Independent reports on

'What is the point of my being?'

Asks life sentence prisoner Jamie Starbuck in a letter to prisoners' newspaper Inside Time.

Government bans cats, or is it qat?

We enjoyed David Nutt's piece in

Preparing the prisons marketplace

The Ministry of Justice is