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Sky’s Adam Boulton was joined by Philip Davies Conservative MP and Roma Hooper from Make Justice Work for their views on sentencing and what the Justice Minister can do to save £2bn from [...]

Women’s prisons are now seen as stop-gap providers of social care and temporary housing – a refuge for those who have slipped through the net of local services, a new report has [...]

Women should not be sent to prison and should instead serve community sentences, according to a new report by the Women’s Justice Taskforce. The focus should be on health, housing and [...]

Ministers could save millions on women’s prison places if they invested more in community sentences and women’s centres, according to an independent taskforce report. Alternatives to custody for [...]

A chief constable today backed calls to close women’s prisons, claiming the negative impact on families was not worth the punishment to the individual. Chief Constable Stephen Otter, in [...]

Ken Clarke was handed proof that tough justice works yesterday as figures revealed criminals jailed for longer are less likely to reoffend than those given shorter sentences. A Ministry of [...]

Offenders released from longer sentences also go on to commit fewer crimes after being released than those serving shorter jail terms, the Ministry of Justice said. According to the figures, only [...]

Listen to full interview on Live Drive and fastforward to 1hr and 10mins to hear Roma talking about re-offending rates amongst lower-level offenders

The longer the prison sentence the less likely an offender is to commit a further crime, according to research. The Ministry of Justice report found that 37.5% of those imprisoned for two to four [...]

Tough and intensive community sentences punish offenders but also force them to address their behaviour

In response to your article “Victims’ Tsar brands Tory-led coalition soft on crime”, it’s not true that victims want harsher punishment – they want punishments that work. Some community sentences [...]