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In the news
Over the summer, we contributed to several news pieces, including on prison reform, witness anonymity, crime waves, police investigations and the Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence.
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A sense of justice
At the beginning of July I was honoured to attend a powerful exhibition in parliament on the appalling Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.
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Article on the Lankelly Chase Foundation closure announcement
Our director Richard Garside, wrote for Third Sector magazine earlier this week on the closure announcement by Lankelly Chase Foundation.
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Comment on Lankelly Chase Foundation closure
In the mid-1990s, in one of my first jobs, I once asked my boss what ethical criteria the charity I worked for applied to donations.
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Educate, collaborate, organise
Last Month in Criminal Justice, our popular online panel discussion that we ran during lockdown, is back later this year.
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68 is too late
A toxic mix of budget cuts and rising demands over the past decade and more has left many parts of the criminal justice system in England and Wales in a real state.
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Warehouses of despair
Prisons policy in England and Wales has taken a “catastrophic direction” since 2010, with prisons at risk of becoming “little more than warehouses of despair, danger and degradation”.
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Challenging the complacent consensus
How do we create change in criminal justice?
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New briefing on Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence
We have produced a new briefing for MPs on the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.
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Is that it? Comment on Government response to Justice Committee IPP report
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies today criticised the delay and obfuscation in the government’s response to the House of Commons Justice Committee report on the Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentence.
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Listening and learning
One of my formative experiences, early on in my time working on criminal justice reform, came in the green room of a TV studio, shortly before taking part in a live debate on paedophiles.
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Laying down the foundations
In September we published our new strategy, the first stage of what we see as a decade-long journey to our 100th anniversary as an organisation in 2031.