Take action: don’t let victims suffer twice
The Government’s proposals in ‘Getting it right for victims and witnesses‘ contain some good ideas. But Victim Support is very concerned about one key element of these plans.
The Government’s proposals in ‘Getting it right for victims and witnesses‘ contain some good ideas. But Victim Support is very concerned about one key element of these plans.
“Our chair, David Barrie, Javed khan CEO of Victim Support and I met with a Private Secretary to the Prime Minister at no 1o. It was an open and encouraging discussion and enabled us to [...]
SIR – Five years after Baroness Corston’s review of women in prison, we still send 600 first-time, non-violent female offenders to prison each year. A further 900 are locked up for breaching a [...]
Rob Allen works on prison reform in the UK and internationally. From 2005 to 2010 he was director of the International Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS) at King’s College London and is currently [...]
Ambassador of Make Justice Work Iqbal Wahhab writes about the importance of getting offenders into training and employment after their sentence. Go to page 66 of Business First Magazine to read [...]
When a crime is committed it is deemed to be committed against the state. The victim goes one way, and the perpetrator goes the other way and never the twain shall meet. Thus, the offenders have [...]
Make Justice Work was established in 2009 as a campaign to boost public support for a change in how Britain deals with lower-level offenders – a switch from expensive and futile short prison terms to intensive and effective sanctions.