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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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Older prisoners still face double punishment

13/08/2008 14:38:00

"It's not acceptable that, four years on from the Chief Inspector’s previous report, older prisoners still face the double punishment of being locked up in prisons that take little, or no, account of the needs of the elderly."

The cruelest wait

11/08/2008 15:01:00

Far from toughening up on bail, we should limit the use of jail for people on remand: they are, after all, innocent until proven guilty.

7 August 2008 - two thirds of prisons officially overcrowded

07/08/2008 15:43:00

As it publishes the list of the top 20 most overcrowded jails in England and Wales, the Prison Reform Trust warns that the human and financial cost of prison growth and overcrowding is now too great to bear.

Justice committee condemns failure in government's sentencing policy

22/07/2008 12:21:00

This blistering report must make ministers review their failing prisons policy before they disappear down the bottomless public spending pit of titan jails.

What this committee of MPs from all parties found was that the prisons crisis is a direct result of the government failing to follow its twin track strategy of reserving prison for serious and violent offenders and using community orders for minor offenders.

PRT response to government review on sentencing commission

10/07/2008 14:45:00

Whether a sentencing commission, or a beefed-up guidance council, this body must command the confidence of ministers, judges and the public. To be effective it should get greater consistency in sentencing to stop sentence inflation, it should advise on the impact on the prison population of new laws and it must engage with the public.

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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.