A leading advocate for penal reform assesses the parties’ manifestos.
Congratulations to Rose Harvey, Katie Sambrooks and Christian Rowlands. OurKingdom publishes the winners of this year's John Howard Essay Prize, in association with the Howard League for Penal Reform and Hacked Off.
Privatisation of the probation service. A dangerous, dodgy scheme is rumbled in the House of Lords.
On International Women’s Day the Howard League appeals to UN over imprisonment of pregnant 16-year-old girl.
Serco, the company that inspects Britain’s schools, trains our armed forces, runs our prisons, maintains our nuclear weapons, and is taking over big chunks of our NHS, reported stunning financial results today.
Child suicides, staff assaults on children (often legally sanctioned). . . children are plainly not safe in the youth justice system of England and Wales.
A leading prison reformer argues that most women in prison today in England and Wales could be rehabilitated more effectively through a community sentence.
The UK government packaged its privatisation of probation services in England and Wales today as 'the most significant reforms to tackling re-offending and managing offenders in the community for a generation'. A leading campaigner for prison reform peers beneath the packaging.
Sexually exploited girls may commit crime to try and escape the men who exploit them. Our courts confuse their welfare needs with criminality and lock them up for longer.
UK penal reform charity the Howard League claims newly opened Oakwood Prison, run by G4S, is turning away difficult prisoners and losing staff
How ‘rolling back the state’ enriches and empowers a few big commercial outsourcers
Howard League analysis shows just how harmful supersizing and overcrowding can be
