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The Offender Rehabilitation Bill outlined in the Queen’s Speech yesterday, and Chris Grayling’s further announcements today brings some positive news about the extension of probation [...]

As you will have heard, Make Justice Work will be coming to an end in June following four years of intensive campaigning. These last four years have been an incredible journey in which we have [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Today was the deadline to submit written evidence to the House of Commons Justice Select Committee into women offenders.

This morning the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) published the latest statistics on prison population and reported that 77 out of 131 prisons in England and Wales are overcrowded.

Earlier this week the Daily Mail splashed on its front page that around one in four offenders on community sentences were failing to comply with their terms. The Mail also reported that half of [...]

This morning we launched Just Results, a report on the government’s plans to apply Payment by Results (PbR) to community sentences. The report was the result of bringing together 30 leading [...]

MJW attended the Howard League Community Programmes Awards 2012 at the Kings Fund today. It was fantastic to see so many programmes doing such good work and making a difference. Here are a list [...]

Roma Hooper, Director of Make Justice Work said, “MJW broadly supports the principles behind the Swift and Sure Justice White Paper. However our chief concern is that speeding up the Courts [...]