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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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Time for a moratorium on prison building

19/05/2010 16:13:00

The Prison Reform Trust today calls on the new justice secretary, Rt Hon Ken Clarke QC MP, and newly announced prisons minister, Crispin Blunt MP, to consider a moratorium on prison building to give time to develop an effective penal policy.

Too Many Prisoners

14/04/2010 16:39:00

Too Many Prisoners is a collection of the minutes of the meetings of the All-Party Parliamentary Penal Affairs Group 2008 - 2010.

National Audit Office report on managing offenders on short custodial sentences

09/03/2010 14:40:00

60% of short-sentenced prisoners commit another crime within a year of getting out, costing the country between £7 billion and £10 billion a year, a report by the National Audit Office said today.

Inspectorates criticise 'unsustainable' indeterminate sentences and call for ministerial review

04/03/2010 14:51:00

The Prison Reform Trust welcomes the publication of a thematic review of sentences of Imprisonment for Public Protection by the Criminal Justice Joint Inspectorate, which branded the present position in regard to these disastrous IPP sentences as “unsustainable”.

HM Chief Inspector's annual report 'warning to be ignored by any government's peril'

24/02/2010 10:07:00

Commenting on HM Chief Inspector of Prisons' final annual report, Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, described it as "a clear warning to be ignored at any government's peril".

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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.