21/10/2011 12:18:00
Too many vulnerable women are unnecessarily sent to the UK’s prisons for non-violent offences, while local women’s centres – which have had better results in reducing offending – face an uncertain future. We are calling on our supporters to help put this right.
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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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06/06/2011 00:01:00
Effective community sentences that command the confidence of the courts should cut women’s offending, reduce the women’s prison population and save the public purse, according to a report launched today by the independent Women’s Justice Taskforce.
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20/08/2010 14:13:00
Figures released by the Prison Reform Trust reveal disappointing progress in reducing the size of the female prison population despite cross-party endorsement for Baroness Corston’s review, published more than three years ago, which called for “radical change” in the treatment of women in the criminal justice system. The briefing, Women in Prison, coincides with a BBC Breakfast feature on the work of women’s centres which offer alternatives to custody for women offenders.
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28/10/2008 14:25:00
Yesterday Jack Straw declared reclaiming the "unfashionable" concepts of punishment and reform would not herald a Victorian approach to crime. Yet, with the publication this week of figures showing the number of babies born in prison is soaring, you don't need to read Little Dorrit to feel there's already something very Dickensian about our prison system.
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