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 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 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:
Community payback is part of a bigger picture
Whilst shedding light on slack supervision of offenders on community payback, unsurprisingly the ITV programme last night did nothing to provide a more balanced view and did nothing to explain [...]
