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People want offenders to make amends, poll reveals

ICM survey results offer massive vote of support for community payback and restorative justice.

The results of an ICM telephone poll of 1,000 members of the public, conducted one month after the riots in England, show overwhelming popular support for constructive ways in which offenders can make amends to victims for the harm they have caused.

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"Disappointing" progress on reducing female custody, figures reveal

20/08/2010 14:13:00

Figures released by the Prison Reform Trust reveal disappointing progress in reducing the size of the female prison population despite cross-party endorsement for Baroness Corston’s review, published more than three years ago, which called for “radical change” in the treatment of women in the criminal justice system. The briefing, Women in Prison, coincides with a BBC Breakfast feature on the work of women’s centres which offer alternatives to custody for women offenders.

Tough times ahead for prisons, outgoing Chief Inspector warns, and urges government resolve

13/07/2010 15:23:00

The Chief Inspector of Prisons warned the government of the challenges ahead in maintaining progress in an overpopulated prison system. Dame Anne Owers urged ministers to be bold and think differently about prison in her

valedictory lecture

to the Prison Reform Trust, kindly supported by the Worshipful Company of Weavers.

Ill-drafted IPP sentence leaves thousands locked up in bureaucratic limbo

08/07/2010 14:23:00

The ill-drafted indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP) has wrought havoc in the justice system and should be reviewed by the government as a matter of some urgency, according to a joint research report published on 8 July by the Prison Reform Trust and the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at King’s College London, with the support of the Nuffield Foundation.

Unjust Deserts: imprisonment for public protection

08/07/2010 11:18:00

The history of the sentence of imprisonment for public protection (IPP) is an object lesson in how to mismanage sentencing reform.

Crispin Blunt MP gives speech to APPPAG AGM

06/07/2010 14:07:00

Crispin Blunt MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice addresses the annual general meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Penal Affairs Group.

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Children with learning disabilities and other impairments are more likely to go to prison than other young people because the youth justice system is failing to recognise their needs, according to a major survey of youth offending team (YOT) staff.