MJW visit Prospects run by Kent Probation
Last week Kent Probation kindly invited Make Justice Work to visit their community project Prospects.
By Roma Hooper
In Intensive Community Sentences, Offender Education, Offender Rehabilitation, Roma's Blog, Victim Support
Posted The Howard League: Community Programmes Award 2012
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 [...]
Second reading of the Crime and Courts Bill
MJW sent a briefing out to Peers before the secong reading of the Crime and Courts bill and we were very pleased to read there was support from peers for effective community sentences. You can [...]
By Roma Hooper
Posted MJW and Victim Support visit to No.10 – Roma Hooper
“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 [...]
Overcrowded prisons are a national disgrace
The Independent’s leader (Overcrowded prisons are a national disgrace, 24 Nov) is right to call short prison sentences the most obviously dysfunctional part of what Ken Clarke called our [...]
Authentic Face of Crime?
The argument that prison is the answer to tackling re-offending is flawed (Daily Express, Opinion, 24 November). Most offenders who serve short prison sentences re-offend once they are [...]
By Roma Hooper
Posted The National Enquiry – Launch of the Final Report
I am delighted to announce the publication of the National Enquiry – Final Report
By Roma Hooper
In Community Sentences, Intensive Community Sentences, Offender Rehabilitation, Politics, Prison, Roma's Blog
Posted The role of the probation service
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:
