Smaller, but tougher
Our new report, out today, reveals that fewer young adults are being sent to prison than a decade ago, but those who are imprisoned are getting much longer sentences
#SmallerButTougher
21.07.2025 10:56 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
PR 285: HMP PENTONVILLE INSPECTION REPORT EXPOSES THE CRISIS IN THE UK’S JAILS SAYS UNION | The POA
“The situation at Pentonville reflects many of the issues our members are experiencing across the country. Overcrowding, understaffing, a squalid prison estate and poor leadership are indicative of a prison system in crisis”
www.poauk.org.uk/news-events/...
18.07.2025 15:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We have now published all the commended essays (and the winner) of the inaugural Mike Guilfoyle Essay Prize. The annual competition, run with @napotheunion.bsky.social , honours Mike’s memory by encouraging reflections on all that is valuable and important in probation.
10.07.2025 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Approach with caution: Does the UK have anything to learn from Texas? | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Approach with caution: Does the UK have anything to learn from Texas?
A rare opportunity to hear from Michele Deitch, one of the foremost US experts on prisons and sentencing policy.
@crimeandjustice.bsky.social event 21 July lunchtime
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/approach-cau...
30.06.2025 14:48 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Recent speech to the UN General Assembly by the Director General of the UN Office on Drugs & Crime, Ghada Waly:
“If we measure our societies today, we find them struggling with a silent yet growing prison crisis... This is not sustainable. It is not safe. And it is not humane”
20.06.2025 07:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Spot on by POA chair, Mark Fairhurst, on the waste of spending billions on new prisons
“You could do a lot with that… the estate could be totally modernised, we could fund secure mental health beds in our communities to get people out of prison, we could reform probation and fund them”
13.06.2025 13:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Appointing the redoubtable @verabaird.bsky.social to chair the troubled Criminal Cases Review Commission, if only on an interim basis, strikes me as a very good move
www.gov.uk/government/n...
05.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Building a better future | Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
My latest commentary on our current crop of politicians
Burdened by the past and fearful of the future, they are stuck in a doom loop
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/building-bet...
29.05.2025 11:02 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for our next event, Echoes of tomorrow, on 24 June
We’ll be discussing how on present-day criminal justice policy-making is haunted by past decisions and anticipations of what the future might hold
23.05.2025 12:52 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Any Sentencing Review must surely be just a first step in the long promised fundamental appraisal of our entire neglected desperately underfunded Justice system.
22.05.2025 05:43 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The measures being recommended by the Gauke Review offer the potential for a fresh start
After decades of failed sentencing policy, ministers and parliament will, though, need to learn new, healthier habits, committing to long-term behaviour change
22.05.2025 05:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fresh thinking is desperately needed, so I welcome the publication of David Gauke’s review
Nobody really believes that the government can build its way out of the prison capacity crisis, or that the current way of doing sentencing and prisons policy is desirable
22.05.2025 05:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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