MAKE COUNCILS FOOT THE BILL FOR CHILDREN IN JAIL AND FEWER WILL BE IMPRISONED
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Giving local authorities control of the existing £279 million annual budget for child custody would cut crime and reduce the number of children in jail, according to a Prison Reform Trust plan published today on the tenth anniversary of the Youth Justice Board. |
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House of Commons Justice Committee
Watch Juliet Lyon, Anne Owers CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Andrew Bridges, HM Chief Inspector of Probation and Paul Tidball, Prison Governors Association giving evidence to the House of Commons Justice Committee after the publication of the Carter report.
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Criminal Damage - why we should lock up fewer children
The number of children sentenced to custody in England and Wales more than tripled between 1991 and 2006. We lock up more under 18 year olds proportionally than any other country in Western Europe.
This new briefing, combining public opinion poll evidence and a twelve point action plan, is part of the Prison Reform Trust’s five year programme to reduce child and youth imprisonment.
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Bromley Briefings fact file - June 2008
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In response to the publication this morning of the government’s consultation on so-called ‘Titan’ prisons, the Prison Reform Trust has today released the latest facts and figures on the state of our prisons and the state of people in them.
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WI votes to call a halt to the inappropriate imprisonment of the mentally ill
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After her schizophrenic son killed himself in prison, one mother’s determination to stop other families suffering as hers has done has led to a resounding commitment from the WI to stop the cruel practice of locking up mentally ill people in bleak, overcrowded jails. It is difficult to think of anywhere more likely to make an ill person worse.
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Indefinitely Maybe: how the indeterminate sentence for public protection is unjust and unsustainable
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Originally intended for a small number of dangerous offenders, the indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP) is increasingly used by sentencers so that there are now almost 3,000 people serving these new life sentences; some for relatively minor offences. The briefing Indefinitely Maybe?, details the careless framing of the sentence, and the chaos it has brought to prison landings and to people's lives.
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