National Enquiry speeds ahead with a second session in Bradford

Posted October 2, 2010

As part of our ongoing commission of enquiry, we visited the Together Women Programme in Bradford yesterday. Our panellists plus journalists were given the opportunity to spend time at the programme talking with the women involved and experiencing first hand the excellent work of this one stop shop. Over 60 guests came to listen to the evidence given to the panel about the challenges and successes of community sentencing in West Yorkshire. Lots of press coverage and many very important issues came to light which will go into an interim report for ministers very shortly.

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Roma Hooper

Roma has worked in and around the criminal justice system since 1992, when she was asked to help set up Britain’s first prison radio station at Feltham Young Offenders’ Institution. She has a Masters in Criminal Justice Policy from the London School of Economics, is Chair of the Griffins Society (supporting women in the criminal justice system), Vice-Chair of the Foundation Training Company (which runs a series of prison and community based resettlement and development programmes) as well as Chair and Founder of the Prison Radio Association. In 2010 she launched Make Justice Work, a campaign to highlight the cost of short-term prison sentences and to improve public confidence in community sentences.