Thank you for the invitation to speak this evening on the prison crisis. I admire the work and values of Le Monde Diplomatique. It is good to be among those committed to supporting its ongoing, and important, work.
Our submission to the House of Commons Justice Committee inquiry into the prison population in 2022 has been published on the Committee's website.
Submitted in partnership with the analytical services organisation, Justice Episteme, our submission offers an analysis of the historical trajectory of the custodial population in England and Wales from 2003, and a projection for the period to 2022 and beyond.
We estimate that, if there...
In an article for the OpenDemocracy website, our Senior Policy Associate, Rebecca Roberts, has criticised the government's plans to expand the prison system by 10,000 places and build new prisons, arguing that it will do little to solve the ongoing crisis in the system.
Rebecca describes...
Our Director, Richard Garside, today welcomed comments by the former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Lord Ramsbotham, on the crisis in the prisons system.
In remarks reported by the i, Lord Ramsbotham said that the 'avoidable crisis' in prisons had 'been made a great deal worse by the deliberate actions of ministers and their...
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is one of a number signatories to a letter in The Guardian today calling for 'an immediate moratorium on prison construction and a...
Our Director, Richard Garside, has called on the government to develop a long-term plan to downsize prisons across England and Wales. The government should aim to at least halve the number of people locked up over the next twenty years, he said.
His call comes as...
The Centre's Director, Richard Garside, today said that a major prison downsizing programme was the reform challenge of this generation.
His comments came in reaction to a call by senior politicians for the prison population to be halved. The call was made by the former Deputy...
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has called on the Ministry of Justice to shelve plans for so-called 'reform prisons'. Instead, the Ministry should focus its energies 'on the important task of real and sustained prison reform'.
Our call comes in evidence we submitted to the House...
The state of the prison system in England and Wales is so grim, so awful, it is easy to feel at a loss over where to start and what to do about it.
Earlier this week the Prisons and...
Our Director, Richard Garside, today welcomed calls for a cut in the high number of people locked up in prisons across England and Wales.
The Conservative Chair of the House of Commons Justice Committee, Bob Neill MP, is one of a growing number of figures calling for a reduction in the prison population.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Neill said that he was looking for a...
The Ministry of Justice’s plan to reduce the prison population through a reduction in reoffending 'has almost no chance of success', the former New York City corrections and probation director Michael Jacobson...
