Second reading of the Crime and Courts Bill

Posted May 29, 2012

In Community Sentences, Intensive Community Sentences, Roma's Blog

MJW sent a briefing out to Peers before the secong reading of the Crime and Courts bill and we were very pleased to read there was support from peers for effective community sentences.

You can read MJW’s briefing document here.

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Roma Hooper

Roma has worked in and around the criminal justice system since 1992, when she was asked to help set up Britain’s first prison radio station at Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution. She has a Masters in Criminal Justice Policy from the London School of Economics, is Chair of the Griffins Society (supporting women in the criminal justice system), Vice-Chair of the Foundation Training Company (which runs a series of prison and community based resettlement and development programmes) as well as Chair and Founder of the Prison Radio Association. In 2010 she launched Make Justice Work, a campaign to highlight the cost of short-term prison sentences and to improve public confidence in community sentences.