The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' Director, Richard Garside, has welcomed hints that the new Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, might be rethinking plans for 'reform prisons'.
Speaking yesterday at the House of Commons Justice Committee, Liz Truss said that she was not yet ready to...
Our Director, Richard Garside, today said that the government's plans for reform prisons were a 'tragic distraction from the big challenges of prison reform'.
Given the parlous state of prisons across England and Wales, a reform-minded Justice Minister like Michael Gove has ample opportunity to make his mark.
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...
The Centre's director, Richard Garside, is quoted in today's Financial Times, in a piece looking at the government's plans to replace old Victorian prisons with new ones.
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Maureen Mansfield and Hannah Pittaway writing for the Left Foot Forward website outline some of the issues arising from the forthcoming closure of Holloway prison - the only...
An article by our Deputy Director, Will McMahon, unpacking Justice Secretary Michael Gove's talk of prison reform has been published in The Justice Gap.
The...
Rebecca Roberts, the Centre's Senior Policy Associate, has written about the closure of Holloway prison, drawing on the Alternatives to Holloway pamphlet published in 1972. She writes:
Some 44 years later and prison numbers have rocketed. In the 30 years leading up to
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Every so often a government minister makes a socially liberal speech that is hailed as a turning point in penal policy.
Plans to replace Holloway prison with expensive housing, unaffordable to most Londoners, have drawn criticism. It is not the first controversy to have dogged the future of the Holloway site.
The current prison was built in the 1970s and 1980s, replacing the original nineteenth century...
On 25 November 2015, the Justice Secretary Michael Gove announced that he was planning to close HMP Holloway. What a good...
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...
