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Holloway: The beginning of a revolution?

At this year’s Conservative party conference, Michael Gove apparently heralded in a new era for criminal justice reform. Prisons need to be managed better, he said. People in prison need to...

Comment

A 'radical and ambitious' approach for women who break the law

On 26 January 2015, the Scottish Minister of Justice, Michael Matheson, announced that the planned £75 million women’s ‘super-prison’ in Inverclyde would not go ahead.

Speech

After the election: where now for social and criminal justice

I have been asked to speak on the topic of ‘After the election: where now for social and criminal justice’. The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, of which I am the director, is an independent...

Publication

Housing needs of women from minority ethnic groups leaving HMP Holloway

How can women from minority ethnic groups leaving prison be rescued from homelessness? This is the question asked by a new research report by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. Many women leaving prison need urgent help to find or retain safe and decent housing; in addition they have...

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'This House believes that women should not be sent to prison'

Some years ago the criminologist Andrew Rutherford made a habit of explaining to magistrates the consequences of their decisions.

It was of course for them decide whether to sentence boys...