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.
Rehabilitation in the community serves the offender – Marina Cantacuzino (Founder of the Forgiveness Project and Ambassador of Make Justice Work)
Marina Cantacuzino is founder of the Forgiveness Project a charity exploring forgiveness and restorative justice through real people’s stories. Marina is also an ambassador for Make Justice Work.
Prison is an expensive way of making people worse – Roger Graef OBE, CEO of Films of Record and ambassador of Make Justice Work
Roger Graef OBE, is CEO of Films of Record, an award winning production company and ambassador of Make Justice Work.
Women should get time out of jail to see their children – Daily Telegraph
Given that the majority of women in prison are serving sentences as a result of non-violent crimes, there is a need to reconsider whether many of them should be separated from their children in [...]
The importance of rehabilitation – by Simon Woodroffe OBE, Ambassador for Make Justice Work
Simon is the founder of YO! Brand, including YO!Sushi, YOTEL, YO! Zone, and YO! Foundation, which he set up to support various charitable causes that are important to him. He is also an [...]
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 [...]
Channel 4 documentary yet again highlights the poignant problem of drugs in our prisons
Angus Macqueen’s “Our Drugs War” exposes many of the complex issues around the drugs trade. Well worth watching again if you can.
Effective rehabilitation lies beyond short term prison sentences
Just in case anyone should think going to prison for a couple of months is of more use than building bird boxes (see Bird-brained Justice, Daily Mail, 20th February 2010), then they should think [...]
