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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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'Unacceptable' prisoner swaps undermined duty of care

30/10/2009 11:09:00

Dame Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of Prisons, publishes reports of two inspections of Pentonville and Wandsworth prisons in May and June 2009.

Making Amends: restorative youth justice in Northern Ireland

29/10/2009 17:11:00

A report that explores the experience and impact of youth conferencing in Northern Ireland, and looks at the potential benefits of introducing a similar model to the youth justice system in England and Wales.

No One Knows: Wales briefing paper (in English and Welsh)

06/10/2009 18:56:00

This briefing calls for health, social services, criminal justice and other relevant services in Wales to come together to do more to prevent people with learning disabilities getting in trouble with the police and to encourage the effective rehabilitation of those in the justice system.

Help needed for Welsh people with learning disabilities

06/10/2009 15:16:00

The discrimination faced by people in Wales with learning disabilities in the criminal justice system is ‘personal, systemic and routine’, according to a Prison Reform Trust report being launched at the Welsh Assembly by Health & Social Services Minister Edwina Hart.

7 August 2009 - prison population hits new record high

07/08/2009 15:55:00

The latest figures released by the Prison Service today show the prison population to be at a new record high of 84,150.

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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.