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Youth Justice Board reprieved
The coalition Government has abandoned plans to axe the Youth Justice Board, justice minister Lord M...
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What price women’s justice? We need your help
Too many vulnerable women are unnecessarily sent to the UK’s prisons for non-violent offences, whi...
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Save our failing justice system
An ICM poll last week revealed that the overwhelming majority want a system where offenders are requ...
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Restoring Justice After the Riots
People will be looking to our courts and prisons to deliver justice in the weeks and months ahead as...
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Record high prison population
The Ministry of Justice today announced a new record number of people held in prisons in England and...
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Why the number of under 18 year olds in custody has reduced by a third
The number of children imprisoned in England and Wales has fallen from about 3,000 in the first half...
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PRT comments on prison competition strategy and prison closures
The government announced today its plans to close two prisons and put the management of nine prisons...
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Pushing up prison numbers isn’t the answer
Reform of our justice system is at the centre of parliamentary debate. Today sees the second reading...
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New facts and figures reveal many solutions to crime lie outside prison bars
Community penalties are now outperforming short prison sentences, according to statistics released t...
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PRT comment: national fall in number of child prison sentences disguises huge variation
An analysis of data on the numbers of children imprisoned from different areas shows that there is s...
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Ken Clarke and Andrew Lansley announce plans for ‘Care Not Custody’
Following a three year campaign led by the WI in partnership with the Prison Reform Trust, the healt...
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Blog: Prisoners with learning disabilities and learning difficulties
In 1999, a prison governor writing in the Prison Service Journal, said: “We… have a young offend...
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Build the Big Society behind bars, says charity
Opportunities for prisoners to take responsibility and volunteer to help others improves wellbeing a...
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Children imprisoned just for missing appointments
Too many children and teenagers are locked up, not for committing criminal or anti-social behaviour,...
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Blog: There is real scope for taking responsibility even behind bars
Mark Day, Head of Policy and Communications at the Prison Reform Trust examines government plans to ...
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Thomas Hammarberg: Prisoners should have the vote
Thomas Hammarberg, the Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe, has underlined the po...
