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Covid-19 in prisons: Focus on Catalonia

Presenting our latest infographic on the state of play of Covid-19 in Catalonian prisons

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Covid-19 in prisons: Focus on Spain

Presenting our latest infographic on the state of play of Covid-19 in Spanish prisons

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Prisons and the COVID-19 crisis webinar

Last weekend, our Director Richard Garside participated in an online panel discussion on prisons during the current pandemic.

Chaired by John Rees, other panellists were criminologist and former prison monitor, Faith Spear and Steve Gillan, General Secretary of the Prison Officers' Association.

Watch the full session here.

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European sentencing responses to COVID-19

Which European states have restricted prison sentencing in response to COVID-19?

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Covid-19 in prisons: Focus on Bulgaria

Presenting our latest infographic on the state of play of Covid-19 in Bulgarian prisons

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Covid-19 in prisons: Focus on Hungary

Presenting our latest infographic on the state of play of Covid-19 in Hungarian prisons

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Speakers announced: Socially distanced justice webinars

We're pleased to announce further details on three webinars looking at ongoing changes to criminal justice administration in light of responses to COVID-19.

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Punishment is the pandemic

Our Chair of Trustees, Charlie Weinberg, has written a piece on the problems of punishment for the website of Abolition, the US-based journal of radical and insurgent politics.

In the piece, Charlie develops the argument she first explored in this article on our website, about the difference between containment and control.

What it is about punishment that makes it simultaneously both...

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