Comment

It felt like neglect

"I don’t think I’ll even let him come back up during this lockdown. It felt like neglect."

12 February 2021
Comment

Not in the job description

Is it the job of the Chief Inspector of Prisons to lobby the government to build new prisons?

18 December 2020
Comment

Every three days

“Over the ten years from 2009 to 2018, at least 1,425 women were killed by men in the UK. This means that a man killed a woman every three days.”

27 November 2020
Comment

The impenetrable wall of police silence

“It was exactly 10 years ago that I discovered that my partner of six years was actually a policeman. He was a fictional character - his identity was fabricated and he was put into my life to deceive me, by his employer, who knew that one day they would remove him.” 

13 November 2020
Speech

Living in poverty is punishment itself

Speech given to the ‘Is it a crime to be poor’ online event, hosted by the University of Birmingham on behalf of the Is it a crime to be poor? alliance

11 November 2020
News

Prisons and politics

An article by our Director, Richard Garside, on the politics of imprisonment, is published in the latest edition of Prison Service Journal.

11 September 2020