29/06/2011 00:01:00
Community penalties are now outperforming short prison sentences, according to statistics released today from the latest edition of the Prison Reform Trust’s Bromley Briefings Prison Factfile. If government succeeds in reforming the justice system, building on the success of community measures including diversion into health treatment where appropriate, and holding prison numbers to an unavoidable minimum, it could deliver on its promise of a “rehabilitation revolution”.
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08/12/2010 17:03:00
The Ministry of Justice green paper is a blueprint for moderate and sensible reform and should mark the end of sterile debate on toughness or softness on crime. Rather than settling for policy-making on the hoof or enduring a crisis-driven justice system, the Secretary of State for justice has opened a proper consultation on sentencing and rehabilitation based on evidence of what works.
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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.
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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”.
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15/10/2008 15:52:00
This report lays bare the scale of the damage done by IPP’s.
IPP’s are a text book example of the dangers of chasing headlines by acting tough, not smart. As our report last year first highlighted, the sentence was unnecessary and proved to be unworkable, overfilling prisons and leaving prison staff to try to make sense of the mess.
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01/02/2008 13:45:00
Speaking today about the Court of Appeal’s judgment in the cases of David Walker and Brett James, Juliet Lyon, director, Prison Reform Trust said:
Today’s decision highlights the dangers of passing headline-grabbing laws with barely any regard to the consequences.
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