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What future for electronic monitoring?
Last week we held a symposium on the future of electronic monitoring of those under a criminal justice sanction in England and Wales.
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Community Plan for Holloway appears on BBC News
On Friday, 5 January, Andy Bain of Community Plan for Holloway was interviewed on the early evening BBC London News, calling for genuinely affordable housing to be built on the Holloway prison site to meet the needs of young people in Islington.
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New year message 2018
Reflecting on the events of 2017 and looking ahead to 2018, our Director, Richard Garside, said:
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Criminal justice in the UK: Smaller, but tougher
Criminal justice across the UK has got smaller, but tougher, over recent years, according to a new briefing from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
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A women's building for Holloway?
Holloway Prison Stories and Reclaim Holloway have released a short film making the case for a women’s building to be part of any future development of the former Holloway prison site in North London.
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Our submission to Transforming Rehabilitation inquiry
Our submission to the House of Commons Justice Committee inquiry into 'Transforming Rehabilitation' has now been published on the Committee's website.
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Comment on bail-outs for private probation companies
Our Director, Richard Garside, has commented on the National Audit Office report, Investigation into changes to Community Rehabilitation Company Contracts, which is published today.
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Call to end dysfunctional probation privatisation
Richard Garside, Director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies today commented on a damning annual report by the Chief Inspector of Probation, Dame Glenys Stacey.
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Many criminal record checks unnecessary, new research
Our latest report, out today, reveals new evidence on the extent of unnecessary criminal record checks.
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Our work in the news
We've had a busy few weeks in the media, making interventions on a range of matters, from youth prisons to criminal records, knife violence, to the state of the probation service.
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'Irrelevant' criminal record checks harm job hopes
Our forthcoming briefing on criminal record checks is covered in this morning's Observer newspaper.
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London Mayor writes to us about Holloway prison plans
In October, we called on the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, to bid for the now closed Holloway prison site, in a joint letter signed by several other organisations and individuals.