Going through the criminal justice system is surreal. Explaining it to people who haven’t been through it is akin to explaining sand surfing in the Sahara to a fish. No matter how critically...
The Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat General Election manifestos propose more than 100 crime and justice-related policies between them.
I was recently invited to deliver a lecture on crime and punishment in Brazil at the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. My exposition covered violence and mass incarceration, and how the war on...
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...
There is a sickness haunting the prison service in England and Wales. This sickness, which systematically generates suffering and death, goes right to the very heart of the daily workings of prison regimes.
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...
Crime and punishment in Brazil will be under the spotlight at a special event being hosted by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies later this month.
On 25 January, Leandro Ayres França, of the...
Last week incidents of extreme violence in a Central or South American prison again made the headlines – this time in the Amazonian region of Brazil. On 1 January, prisoners affiliated to...
The border between prison and the outside community appears to be particularly open to people with mental health problems.
In 1997, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) published a...
When I recently finished reading Professor Frederic G Reamer's powerful account of his experiences...
Prison Safety and Reform was published in November 2016. Covering 61 often-repetitive, meagre pages, the White Paper theoretically provides a blueprint for the ‘biggest overhaul of our prisons in a generation’.
