Comment
More for prison-building, less for schools investment
Last weekend's reannouncement of plans to waste £2.5 billion building four new prisons brings home just how deeply entrenched prisons are as social institutions.
Comment
Finding social, not criminal justice, solutions to our problems
At our final webinar on socially-distanced justice last week, Adam Elliott-Cooper of The Monitoring Group and the University of Greenwich spoke about the demands being made by the black lives matter protestors.
Publication
UK Justice Policy Review: Volume 9
Since 2010, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, with support from The Hadley Trust, has been assessing criminal justice developments across the UK through its UK Justice Policy Review programme. Our latest publication – UK Justice Policy Review , Volume 9 – covers the turbulent period from...
Comment
An opportunity for progress, or the threat of an authoritarian turn?
Since the start of the coronavirus crisis we have been tracking its impact on the criminal justice system.
News
Great Britain on course for massive prison expansion
Great Britain is on course for a massive expansion in prison capacity, according to a new assessment from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, out today.
Comment
Tackling racism in the criminal justice system
"Since 1999, there have been at least double the number of black deaths in police custody than ever before."
Comment
The missed opportunities to prevent coronavirus deaths
The government and Prison Service in England and Wales think that they have a good story to tell on coronavirus in prisons.
Comment
Change of direction needed to prevent further deaths
The distressing news yesterday that five prisoners killed themselves in prisons in England and Wales over six days is a reminder, if such is needed, of prison's dreadful toll of misery and despair.
Comment
Time to focus minds on a long-term vision for criminal justice
This week it emerged that prisoners with coronavirus symptoms have been locked in their cells in Wandsworth prison for up to 14 days at a stretch.
Comment
Inaction on coronavirus exposes our deep attachment to prison
Last September a woman on remand in Bronzefield prison gave birth, alone, in her cell. The baby died.
Comment
What goes on in prison does not stay in prison
As the government finalises its plans for easing the lockdown, the lockdown in prisons looks set to intensify.
Comment
Prisons need to emerge from the lockdown
A regrettable feature of the current coronarvirus crisis is the government using it as an excuse to expand prison capacity, rather than as a prompt to address our crisis of overincarceration.