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Comment on Transforming Rehabilitation report
Our Director Richard Garside today welcomed a new report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee...
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Comment on police body-worn cameras research
Reacting to new research suggesting that police body-worn cameras reduce complaints against the police, our Director Richard Garside said...
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Five prisoners a day
The state of the prison system in England and Wales is so grim, so awful, it is easy to feel at a loss over where to start and what to do about it.
Earlier this week the Prisons and...
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Comment on Justice and Home Secretary appointments
Commenting on the appointment of Liz Truss as Justice Secretary our Director, Richard Garside, said:
Liz Truss' predecessor, Michael Gove, seems destined to go down as the great prison reformer whose career was ended before he had time to disappoint prison reformers.
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Justice Matters for Sadiq Khan
Our Director Richard Garside has welcomed the news that Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will invest the money made from selling three second-hand water cannons in youth services....
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Comment on 'elder abuse' data
Our director, Richard Garside, is quoted in The Times today (subscription required), commenting on new data on the abuse of elderly people, which has been uncovered by...
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Comment on reform prisons announcement
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'.
Comment
Reform prisons a tragic distraction
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.
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Now is the time to cut prisoner numbers
Our Director, Richard Garside, today welcomed calls for a cut in the high number of people locked up in prisons across England and Wales.
The Conservative Chair of the House of Commons Justice Committee, Bob Neill MP, is one of a growing number of figures calling for a reduction in the...
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Centre at forefront of calls for drugs policy reform
Our forthcoming event, 'Responding to drug harms: Can the UK learn from Portugal?', featured in an article in...
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'No chance of success' for government prison policy
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...
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Serco prison struggles to recruit staff
The Centre's Director is quoted in today's Financial Times, commenting on the recruitment crisis at London's flagship private prison, HMP Thameside.
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