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David Shipley

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Labour has until Easter to stop prisons running out of space

Labour has until Easter to stop prisons running out of space
19.02.2025 2

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The truth about Britain’s overcrowded prisons

The truth about Britain’s overcrowded prisons
18.02.2025 10

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How Prevent failed David Amess

How Prevent failed David Amess
13.02.2025 4

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Why wasn’t the Southport killer stopped?

Why wasn’t the Southport killer stopped?
06.02.2025 2

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Why was this convicted murderer released to kill again?

31.01.2025 4

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Crime / Southport killer Axel Rudakubana deserves to die behind bars

23.01.2025 6

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Are we missing the point about the ‘Amazon killer’ Axel Rudakubana?

22.01.2025 4

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Rough justice / Prisons must prioritise mental health

21.01.2025 30

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Open prisons are the answer to our jail crisis

Britain should move thousands of inmates into low-security open prisons, according to David Gauke, the former Tory justice secretary, who is...

27.12.2024 2

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How can we stop football academy rejects ending up in prison?

‘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....

27.12.2024 8

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Why are the police allowing trans officers to strip-search women?

What is the British Transport Police playing at? Biologically male officers identifying as female will be allowed to intimately search women so...

26.11.2024 6

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How corrupt are Britain’s prisons?

Two recently-released prisoners have lifted the lid on corruption and sexual harassment in Britain’s prisons. Beatrice Auty, who was imprisoned for...

15.11.2024 10

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It’s obvious why crime is up in Britain

Yesterday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its annual report on crime in England and Wales. This combines data on crimes...

25.10.2024 10

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More early releases won’t solve the prison crisis

September’s tranche of early releases did not go as smoothly as the government might have hoped. Footage of delighted prisoners celebrating outside...

22.10.2024 3

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Too many people are being recalled to prison

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,...

21.10.2024 10

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Why are high-risk offenders set to be released early?

High-risk offenders could reportedly be released early from secure government-approved hostels. Shortly before before the election in July, the...

09.10.2024 2

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What our prisons get wrong

‘Purposeful activity’ is a phrase often heard in discussions about our prisons. It describes work, training, therapeutic courses and other...

03.10.2024 4

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Britain could learn from Texan prisons

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....

26.09.2024 2

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Why aren’t some released prisoners being tagged?

As hundreds of prisoners are released early on to the streets of Britain, it’s vital that the authorities keep track of these criminals....

19.09.2024 3

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Should prisoners jump the queue for housing?

With the mass releases from prison underway, politicians have turned their attention to what happens after inmates leave jail. On Tuesday, Shabana...

13.09.2024 20

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Probation officers won’t be able to cope with 5,500 prisoner releases

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...

10.09.2024 9

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Starmer can’t keep blaming the Tories for the prison crisis

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...

28.08.2024 2

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The toxicity of two-tier justice

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...

19.08.2024 3

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Law and order / The untold damage of inappropriate prison relationships

As I read last week’s Steerpike exclusive on the thorny topic of ‘inappropriate relationships’ between prison officers and prisoners, my mind...

19.08.2024 2

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The courts will struggle to bring the rioters to justice

Violent conflict, not traditionally a feature of life in Britain, arrived with brutal force this weekend. Angry mobs targeted mosques and attacked...

06.08.2024 4

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Labour’s prison plan will fix one problem – but could cause plenty of others

Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has bowed to the inevitable: acknowledging that ‘our prisons are on the point of collapse’, Mahmood has announced...

12.07.2024 1

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