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Hundreds of lawyers demonstrated in front of the Parliament over government reforms to legal aid.
The Guardian reported that haulage firm, Eddie Stobart, has emerged to be a leading contender in bidding for a new generation of criminal legal aid contracts.
Professor Steve Tombs, one of our Open University colleagues, had a letter published in The Guardian pointing out the differences in responses to murder depending on who the victim is:
John Bowden describes work programmes in prisons as 'slave labour' that negate basic human rights. Read it on the Reclaim Justice Network site.
24% of all deaths registered in England and Wales in 2011 were from potentially avoidable causes.
Norman Tebbit's bizarre comments on same sex marriage caught our eye this month in the Big Issue.
Did you read the second volume of our UK Justice Policy Review? Got any suggestions, comments or criticisms? If you fancy giving us some feedback, then take our readers' survey and tell us what you thought. If you haven't had a chance to take a look at the report and resources then visit the project site.
Instead of walking around the perimeter of his home so the G4S could map the curfew zone to monitor, a teenager gave himself more freedom by running as fast as he could down the road and back.
Argues James Bloodworth on the Left Foot Forward website.
Mike Guilfoyle, a former probation officer, wrote for the Works for Freedom website with a blog about white collar crime under supervision and here you can read a story of a soldier who had to cope with the trauma of war while on probation.
We hosted an interesting roundtable on May 17 in our seminar space in partnership with our colleagues at the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR).
Dr Louise Westmarland of ICCCR presented her findings on research she conducted on police integrity. Among Louise's findings was that the police don't appear to think that hitting a suspect when he's down is anything to get too worked up about.