Spend less on prison
Make Justice Work in Prospect Magazine. “Ian Blair (July) provided a timely insight into the changing face of crime. The new government’s stated intentions to radically reform the response [...]
Make Justice Work in Prospect Magazine. “Ian Blair (July) provided a timely insight into the changing face of crime. The new government’s stated intentions to radically reform the response [...]
Make Justice Work in The Guardian. “Commissioner Paul Stephenson opposes Kenneth Clarke’s plans to lock up fewer criminals Stephenson’s predecessor as Met commissioner, Sir Ian Blair, is [...]
Make Justice Work in The Times Comment. “Violent criminals are freed after half their sentences and the wrong people stay in jail. The campaign Make Justice Work commissioned a cost-benefit [...]
Make Justice Work in The Daily Telegraph Letters. “SIR – Mary Riddell (Comment, June 29) rightly criticises Britain’s prison system.
Make Justice Work in The Financial Times. “Prison reformers, however, insist big savings can be made by switching to community punishment for minor criminals, particularly drug addicts. Make [...]
Make Justice Work in The Times. “Magistrates need community sentences to enhance public confidence and provide more opportunity to divert people away from custodySir, Lord Justice Leveson [...]
Make Justice Work in The Daily Telegraph Letters. “SIR – Prisons should not be treated as mental asylums or long-term hospitals (Letters, March 12). The majority of those on short sentences [...]
Make Justice Work in The Independent. “…Roma Hooper, director of the criminal justice project Make Justice Work, said: “Today’s NAO report highlights the massive cost and inefficiency of [...]
Make Justice Work in Metro UK Letters. “In response to the report that prison costs six times more than Eton (Metro, Mon) – the increasing number of short-term sentences being handed down [...]
Make Justice Work in The Telegraph. “The report from the Commons Justice Select Committee (Alisdair Palmer, Comment, January 17) underlined the unsustainable rise in prison numbers in [...]
Make Justice Work in the New Statesman. “Prison sentences lasting less than two months should be abolished and replaced by longer, tougher community order penalties, Iain Duncan Smith has [...]
Make Justice Work was established in 2009 as a campaign to boost public support for a change in how Britain deals with lower-level offenders – a switch from expensive and futile short prison terms to intensive and effective sanctions.