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Listen to Roma speaking to Eddie Mair on Radio 4’s PM show (21mins in) talking about David Cameron’s recent speech on criminal justice and where community sentences need to fit in.

Russell Webster is making a series of short video interviews on payment by results. In his latest Roma Hooper, founder of Make Justice Work, gives her views on PbR in the criminal justice sector.

Make Justice Work (MJW) campaigns for the wider and more effective use of robust and demanding community sentences as an alternative to short term prison sentences (of 12 months or less) for [...]

In a major speech on the Government’s approach to the criminal justice system, the Prime Minister said that he wanted a ‘tough but intelligent’ response to offending.

Last week Kent Probation kindly invited Make Justice Work to visit their community project Prospects.

My experience of working at Feltham Young Offenders and establishing the UK’s first prison radio station – I am convinced that far too many young people were ending up in Feltham with short [...]

Read ‘Robert Francis, The Texan Judge Closing America’s Jails’ on The Observer website. Make Justice Work gave a grant to journalist Ian Birrell to travel to the US to [...]