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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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Chief Inspector of Prisons' annual report - prison system is living on borrowed time

29/01/2009 11:02:00

In her latest annual report the Chief Inspector of Prisons Dame Anne Owers says that because of the continuing high number of prisoners the prison system in England and Wales must learn important lessons if prisons are to be safe and effective.

Building Titan prisons is a costly fast-track to a failed US prison system

08/12/2008 10:02:00

Building American-style Titan prisons to warehouse thousands of prisoners could fatally undermine the justice system’s ability to cut crime by reforming offenders and instead set England and Wales on the fast-track to copying the damaging and discredited US prison system, a leading US civil rights lawyer will warn tonight at the Prison Reform Trust’s annual lecture.

PRT response to Queen's Speech

03/12/2008 13:49:00

In response to the Queen’s Speech, which includes provision for a bill to establish a sentencing council for England and Wales, Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said:

This Bill could be used to end years of sentence inflation and crisis management in prisons by putting sentencing on a sounder footing. A sentencing council or commission for England and Wales could ensure greater consistency among judges, without fettering their discretion or independence, depoliticise sentencing and restore public confidence in the justice system.

No One Knows: prisoners' voices

20/11/2008 18:53:00

Prisoners' Voices: Experiences of the criminal justice system by prisoners with learning disabilities and learning difficulties.

Jenny Talbot

This is not justice

20/11/2008 12:14:00

Vulnerable people with learning difficulties who commit crime can end up lost in a system they do not understand.

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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.