Make Justice Work in the Society Guardian
Wednesday 19th March 2008
Abandon titan prisons
Peter Selby (Cut from a different cloth, March 12) is right to point out that recent developments in the criminal justice system are deeply disturbing. I’ve worked in and around prisons for many years, and I know from talking to people within the system that there is a strong consensus behind Selby’s sentiment that kneejerk short-termism within the government and parts of the media is crippling an already ailing prison system.
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News
- 06.09.2010 | Daily Telegraph Coalition ministers are going soft on crime, insists Tony Blair
- 06.09.2010 | Guardian Sir Ian Blair: “So, prison’s a party, is it?”
- 25.08.2010 | Prospect Spend less on prison
- 28.08.2010 | BBC News Cutting short term jail sentences ‘will not reduce crime’
Our Research
- Martin Wright Towards a Restorative Society
- Matrix Evidence Are Short-Term Prison Sentences Efficient and Effective?
