Comment

Prison safety and reform: When?

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’.  

2 December 2016
Publication

The toxic legacy of New Labour

Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king. (Bob Dylan) At the time of writing (November 2009), New Labour's law and order strategy was revealed for what it was, and indeed what it had always been, during their 12 years in office. It was a politically expedient...
By 
Joe Sim
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Comment

Beyond Govism

According to liberal commentators, Michael Gove's speech on penal reform at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, and his subsequent announcement that HMP Holloway was to close, will...