What's happened to the prison population during COVID-19?
The keen-eyed prison population watchers amongst you will have noticed the sharp fall in the prison population since the pandemic took hold.
The keen-eyed prison population watchers amongst you will have noticed the sharp fall in the prison population since the pandemic took hold.
On Sunday it was reported that four new prisons will be built as part of a wider government construction programme designed to restore jobs and growth in the wake of the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.
At our final webinar on socially-distanced justice last week, Adam Elliott-Cooper of The Monitoring Group and the University of Greenwich spoke about the demands being made by the black lives matter protestors.
Since the start of the coronavirus crisis we have been tracking its impact on the criminal justice system.
Last year, two in every five (39 per cent) violent incidents in England and Wales were alcohol-related. In fact, the proportion hasn’t dipped below this at any point in the last ten years.
"Since 1999, there have been at least double the number of black deaths in police custody than ever before."
Released earlier this week, the briefing on coronavirus in prisons in England and Wales cited an article by our Head of Programmes, Helen Mills.
The article is one of a two-part series on prison sentencing in the context of the 'new normal' of coronavirus.
Read the House of Commons briefing on coronavirus in prisons here, and Helen's...
This week's speakers explored the political dimensions to the COVID-19 changes and the implications for criminal justice.
The months of March and April felt like an eternity as the world was changed by COVID-19, and justice authorities grappled with how to deal with the issues in prisons.
The government and public bodies often refuse to release the data they hold on confidentiality grounds.
The government and Prison Service in England and Wales think that they have a good story to tell on coronavirus in prisons.
This morning we held the first of three in our series of webinars tackling issues around socially distanced justice.