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You remind me of Valjean
Community-based supervision is relatively invisible, in the popular imagine, compared with prison.
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Webinar video: Last month in criminal justice
Watch the the final episode of 'Last month in criminal justice' before the summer.
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Breaking out
Breaking Out is Janice Nix's unsparingly honest account of her transformative journey from serial offender and drug dealer to working with the Probation Service in London.
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Memorable speakers from my time in probation
It was whilst poring over the pages of Dan Werb's unsettling book, 'City of Omens', a troubling narrative of femicide on the US/Mexican borderlands, that I recalled a time in my probation career when my role in the union, Napo entrusted me with arranging guest speakers at branch meetings.
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Methadone in prisons: Route to recovery or chemical cosh?
Neil McKeganey: ‘Methadone must be used judiciously’ Providing dependent drug users a highly addictive drug is always going to be a risky business and for that reason it requires tight guidelines as to how much and for how long the drugs should be made available. That is very much the issue behind...
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Co-operating out of crime?
Right across the political spectrum all the talk today is of co-operatives, mutuals, and co-production as the solution to everything from public service reform to the economic crisis and the problems of ‘broken Britain’. Labour talks of ‘John Lewis-style’ and mutual public services and holds up...
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‘Twenty year stretch’: a probation officer’s view from the front line
I have just left the Probation Service after nearly 20 years ‘stretch’ as a front-line probation officer. On my last day, I was asked to see an ‘offender’ reporting to the office for a colleague. Peter (not his real name) looking very much like one of the gasworks gang (for readers of the Beano!)...