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Our Director's evidence to the Justice Committee

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Our Director, Richard Garside, gave evidence to the Justice Committee earlier today as part of the Prison Population 2022: planning for the future inquiry.

Key questions were asked about:

  • factors driving up the prison population
  • the role and impact of community sentencing 
  • the balance between accountability, effectiveness and toughness in sentencing

A clip of the proceedings can be found below.