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Britain should move thousands of inmates into low-security open prisons, according to David Gauke, the former Tory justice secretary, who is...
‘The first team at Wormwood Scrubs is said to be better than QPR’s’. That line from Toby Young’s article from November has stuck with me....
What is the British Transport Police playing at? Biologically male officers identifying as female will be allowed to intimately search women so...
Two recently-released prisoners have lifted the lid on corruption and sexual harassment in Britain’s prisons. Beatrice Auty, who was imprisoned for...
Yesterday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its annual report on crime in England and Wales. This combines data on crimes...
September’s tranche of early releases did not go as smoothly as the government might have hoped. Footage of delighted prisoners celebrating outside...
One of the new government’s first decisions was to announce that most prisoners would be released 40 per cent of the way through their sentence,...
High-risk offenders could reportedly be released early from secure government-approved hostels. Shortly before before the election in July, the...
‘Purposeful activity’ is a phrase often heard in discussions about our prisons. It describes work, training, therapeutic courses and other...
Before I was sentenced to prison I imagined it as a place of discipline, where we who had broken society’s rules would be taught to be better men....
As hundreds of prisoners are released early on to the streets of Britain, it’s vital that the authorities keep track of these criminals....
With the mass releases from prison underway, politicians have turned their attention to what happens after inmates leave jail. On Tuesday, Shabana...
Today the government is releasing an estimated 1,700 prisoners early, under the scheme (SDS40) in which most inmates will only serve 40 per cent of...
Britain’s prisons are full: over the August Bank Holiday weekend, there were fewer than 100 men’s prison places remaining. The number of spaces has...
One of the worst things about prison is the rules. Before I was sentenced I’d imagined jail as a rigid, structured, disciplined environment where...
As I read last week’s Steerpike exclusive on the thorny topic of ‘inappropriate relationships’ between prison officers and prisoners, my mind...
Violent conflict, not traditionally a feature of life in Britain, arrived with brutal force this weekend. Angry mobs targeted mosques and attacked...
Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has bowed to the inevitable: acknowledging that ‘our prisons are on the point of collapse’, Mahmood has announced...