Frances Crook believes ‘politicians are still stuck in the 1950s’ when it comes to our criminal justice system. For 35 years, she has been at the helm of the Howard League for Penal Reform, trying to ...

Anne Flynn Scott Jenkins and Euan McIlvride 15 Jun Miscarriages of Justice ...

The current inquiries into historical child abuse in England and Wales and in Scotland entail that, once again, the actions of residential care workers come under heightened scrutiny. As a former ...

Almost lost amid the avalanche of publicity which accompanied the release of the Birmingham Six on 14 March 1991 was an announcement from Home Secretary Kenneth Baker MP. A Royal Commission was to be ...

Almost 800 years of additional time imposed on inmates for rule breaking last year has exacerbated overcrowding, resentment and safety issues in prisons, a leading charity has warned. Report by Piers ...

A review of sentencing following a growing crisis in prisons has found the sharp increase in the prison population has been due to a ‘tough on crime’ narrative by successive governments, based on ...

New research has condemned ‘predictive policing’ in the UK, arguing the practice ‘supercharges racism’, resulting in discrimination and infringement of human rights while failing to lower crime levels ...

In his article of 9th February 2024 on the Justice Gap, “If Justice were a delusion, it would not be worth fighting for,” Here Francis Fitzgibbon KC initially suggests that I now think that the ...

A report from an unannounced inspection of Durham Prison in January 2025 has highlighted serious concerns over prisoner welfare including a 60% rise in prisoner-on-prisoner assaults. The Chief ...

A former police officer claiming to be wrongly convicted of an assault that took place at a police station has accused the Criminal Cases Review Commission of ‘delaying action for years’ despite a ...

A recent unannounced inspection of HMP/YOI Standford Hill by the prisons watchdog raised concerns about hygiene, healthcare, and prisoner welfare but praised the prison for safety, quality of life, ...