downsizing prisons

Should we send fewer people to prison?
Prisons policy is more toxic, pointless and ridiculous than ever
Presumption against short sentences misses the point
The presumption against short prison sentences is a blunt tool to address a real problem
Don’t close the city Victorian jails
The problem with Victorian prisons is that they are overcrowded and badly maintained
Getting out of the prisons crisis
The unthinking acceptance of prisons is preventing us from thinking beyond them
Welcome for Justice Committee prisons report
The report – Prison Population 2022: planning the future – finds that the government’s current approach to p
Conference cancellation: Prison abolition in the UK
Unfortunately, one of our conference partners has, in recent weeks, been subjected to concerted pressure by…
Why can't a prison be more like a bank?
Ideas from banking could help us downsize, stop building and ultimately transform prisons
Major conference on prison abolition in May 2019
The conference will be on Thursday 23 and Friday 24 May, at The Open University campus in Milton Keynes.
Treasury budget confirms new mega-prisons
The programme plans to build six new prisons altogether, whilst the two confirmed in the budget will be built…
Our Director's evidence to the Justice Committee
Key questions were asked about:
Using solutions that work to tackle the prison crisis
More imprisonment does not mean less crime. It's time to invest in solutions that work
Close prisons rather than try to fix them
Richard said that that 'the prisons crisis is not, fundamentally, a crisis in prisons: one that can be resol
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