MJW visit Prospects run by Kent Probation
Last week Kent Probation kindly invited Make Justice Work to visit their community project Prospects.
Last week Kent Probation kindly invited Make Justice Work to visit their community project Prospects.
MJW attended the Howard League Community Programmes Awards 2012 at the Kings Fund today. It was fantastic to see so many programmes doing such good work and making a difference. Here are a list [...]
MJW sent a briefing out to Peers before the secong reading of the Crime and Courts bill and we were very pleased to read there was support from peers for effective community sentences. You can [...]
“Our chair, David Barrie, Javed khan CEO of Victim Support and I met with a Private Secretary to the Prime Minister at no 1o. It was an open and encouraging discussion and enabled us to [...]
The Independent’s leader (Overcrowded prisons are a national disgrace, 24 Nov) is right to call short prison sentences the most obviously dysfunctional part of what Ken Clarke called our [...]
The argument that prison is the answer to tackling re-offending is flawed (Daily Express, Opinion, 24 November). Most offenders who serve short prison sentences re-offend once they are [...]
I am delighted to announce the publication of the National Enquiry – Final Report
The Justice Select Committee have just published their report into the Role of the Probation Service (July, 2011). I thought the following quotation was particularly appropriate:
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.