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Latest Latest news & views of the criminal justice sector ATTEND AN EVENT JOBS BOARD Latest News People caught with drugs for personal use would be referred for health treatment rather than sent to jail under proposals unveiled by the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Leader Willie Rennie said Scotland’s current drugs policy “is costly and fails […]
Latest Latest news & views of the criminal justice sector ATTEND AN EVENT JOBS BOARD Latest News Ground-breaking work carried out by Gwalia the social housing and care support supplier, to reduce re-offending rates among male prisoners and their families has helped Parc Prison secure the ‘Investors in Families’ chartered mark. The success of the […]
Latest Latest news & views of the criminal justice sector ATTEND AN EVENT JOBS BOARD Latest David Anderson QC recently called for an independent review into the PREVENT duty that is statutory under the Counter-terrorism and Security Act 2015. The Government’s PREVENT agenda which is designed to tackle radicalisation, is a sensible response…
Latest Latest news & views of the criminal justice sector ATTEND AN EVENT JOBS BOARD Latest News Let me begin with a pretty extraordinary fact: it’s well over twenty years since a Prime Minister made a speech solely about prisons. To be frank, it can sometimes be easy for politicians to worry so much that […]
Latest Latest news & views of the criminal justice sector ATTEND AN EVENT JOBS BOARD Latest HMP Holloway is one probably one of the UK’s most iconic prisons. It has incarcerated a number of high profile women since its opening in 1852 including the suffragettes, Diana Mitford and Ruth Ellis – a case which prompted […]
Latest Latest news & views of the criminal justice sector ATTEND AN EVENT JOBS BOARD Latest Prison suicide rates are rising sharply, although former UK Justice Secretary Chris Grayling dismissed this appalling waste of life as a mere ‘blip’. This strikes a chord with me, both as someone who twice attempted suicide in my youth, […]
Latest Latest news & views of the criminal justice sector ATTEND AN EVENT JOBS BOARD Latest The nightmare of incarceration for a crime you did not commit is perhaps the most visceral sign of injustice in our society. For many, there is the perception that as the case is quashed the injustice ends. But as […]
Latest Latest news & views of the criminal justice sector ATTEND AN EVENT JOBS BOARD Latest News The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice commissioned a review of the Youth Justice System in England and Wales on September the 11th https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/youth-justice and published the terms of reference on September 17th https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-justice-review-terms-of-reference The review is timely […]
Latest Latest news & views of the criminal justice sector ATTEND AN EVENT JOBS BOARD Latest I’d just finished my talk about the effects of imprisonment on children and families and was gathering up my notes when a woman approached me and said, “It’s so good you’re giving those people a voice.” In the pause […]
Latest Latest news & views of the criminal justice sector ATTEND AN EVENT JOBS BOARD Latest Gareth Jones, Chair of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers (AYM) and Sean Creaney, Trustee of the National Association for Youth Justice (NAYJ) have recently taken an in-depth look at the use of pre-sentence restorative justice in the […]