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The Blackpool Gazette has reported a SERIAL burglar who broke into a Blackpool home just hours after he was released from prison has been jailed for two years.

Everyday at Victim Support we see the impact of crime on people’s lives and its corrosive effect on communities. Being a victim of crime can be traumatic and many of the people we help to find [...]

Prison is the only justifiable punishment for certain crimes. Serious, violent criminals must be kept behind bars and off our streets so that the public is protected and justice is delivered. [...]

One of the highlights of conference for me was the breakfast roundtable organised by Make Justice Work. As conference goers and fringe organisers will know, getting one MP along is a challenge, [...]

Op Ed column about our ‘Community or Custody?’ National Enquiry report by Anushka Asthana, political correspondent for the Times.

Make Justice work have appeared in the Law Society Gazette–

A very interesting blog picked up by the Wall Street Journal about the penal system in the USA.

Roma Hooper, founder and director of Make Justice Work has been talking to the Huffington Post about the riots

‘Community service is more effective than short jail terms for low level repeat offenders, experts will say. A report by campaign group Make Justice Work will be presented to Downing Street [...]

Community service is more effective than short jail terms for low level repeat offenders, experts will say.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/community-service-more-effective-16048072.html