Archives

The government should take note when Mothers Against Murder and Aggression rightly say “there is no point in someone being locked up for six weeks and then released with the same issues and [...]

I am delighted to announce the publication of the National Enquiry – Final Report

The Justice Select Committee have just published their report into the Role of the Probation Service (July, 2011).  I thought the following quotation was particularly appropriate:

The Justice Committee is absolutely right to demand leadership from the government in building public confidence in community sentences.  Ministers know full well that short spells in prison [...]

I just wanted to draw your attention to the latest publication of the Prison Reform Trust’s Bromley Briefing Factfile.  One of the findings shows that:

The government’s Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill is having its Second Reading in the House of Commons today and Make Justice Work is putting out a call to action to [...]

In the press conference, after his statement on Criminal Justice (21st June 2011), this is what David Cameron had to say about community sentences:

Drug abuse is one of the biggest causes of low-level offending. If we stop locking these people up at great expense and begin properly addressing their drug taking, we will see crime rates and [...]

Ministers under pressure on sentencing reforms must keep their eyes on the prize: the real problem in prisons is the ‘revolving door’ of offenders going in, out, and in again for short sentences [...]

Few sensible politicians would support locking up the thousands of women who receive the shortest sentences, at the highest cost to the state and to their families, and make up a tiny proportion [...]

The statistics on crimes committed by repeat offenders should be a wakeup call (Daily Mail, ‘Dodging Justice’, 30 May) Ken Clarke is right to call it a ‘national scandal’. [...]