The wrong end of the sentence
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 [...]
MJW responds to PRT’s prison overcrowding statistics
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.
By Roma Hooper
Posted Government Proposals will add more pressure to over worked prisons and court system
“Proposals published by the Government to tackle anti-social behaviour risk adding to the pressures on our already overworked courts system and over-crowded prisons. Unless sufficient [...]
Staggering re-offending statistics
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 [...]
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:
