What can Britain learn from El Salvador about policing the riots? Opinion El Salvador’s president has transformed his country’s fortunes and won an electoral landslide with his zero-tolerance approach to gangs. We should take a similar approach to the hardened criminals involved in the riots, says James Price Mercy, justice, grace. Heavy themes for a Wednesday morning, more often dealt with from the pulpit than the pages [...]
Emergency move to avoid jail overcrowding may be used soon as rioters sentenced Politics The government could trigger an emergency plan to avoid prison overcrowding “at some point next week” as rioters are sentenced, according to the Prison Officers’ Association. It followed reports in The Observer that the government could be about to trigger Operation Early Dawn. The long-standing contingency measure allows defendants to be held in police cells [...]
Do long prison sentences work? Economics has the answer Opinion Sentences deter different groups in different ways - and behavioural economics shows how, says Paul Ormerod
Life after prison: Battling homelessness and unemployment July 25, 2024 “People do come out of prison, that’s the whole point. So what’s next?” Lucy Kenningham speaks to ex-offender Jason Barnfather
The Notebook: Can Labour reform public services? The early signs are encouraging July 17, 2024 Today’s King’s Speech is when Labour’s airy rhetoric of change hits the hard reality of legislative grind, writes Neil Bennett.
Emergency plans to release prisoners early to ease overcrowding to be revealed July 11, 2024 The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is set to announce its emergency plans to free up prison spaces in order to tackle the issue of overcrowding.
Freeing Britain’s ‘ghost prisoners’ is the first step towards prison reform July 11, 2024 "Torturous" indeterminate sentences have led prisoners to lead decades of their lives in jail, writes Lucy Kenningham
The Debate: Should Labour scrap the early release scheme? July 11, 2024 As Britain's prisons near full capacity, Sunak's government started an emergency measure: releasing prisoners early. What should Labour do now?
Filth, violence and vermin – what life is really like at Wandsworth Prison May 23, 2024 Wandsworth Prison is a national disgrace, with 80 per cent of prisoners sharing a cell and most men staying in their rooms for 22 hours a day.
Our prison system is an economic and moral failure April 18, 2024 Few politicians want to talk about prisons. They should be braver