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  • Thursday, 12 December, 2019
    UK politics & policy
    Election exposes gulf between justice experts and politicians

    MPs’ focus on police numbers contrasts with call for better rehabilitation services

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    Probation service criticised on commitment to rehabilitation

    Preference in new contracts for ‘high volume, standardised interventions’ comes under fire

  • Sunday, 1 December, 2019
    Terrorism in UK
    Politicians play blame game after London Bridge tragedy

    Conservatives and Labour trade blows as second Cambridge university victim is named

  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2019
    UK politics & policy
    UK court reform slipping behind schedule, MPs warn

    Public accounts committee says pressure on system to mount after more police recruited

  • Thursday, 31 October, 2019
    Prison violence soars in England and Wales

    Ministry of Justice statistics show self-harm incidents are at a record high

  • Friday, 11 October, 2019
    AnalysisUK employment
    Can ex-prisoners help fill the UK’s labour shortage?

    Employers are becoming more open to hiring offenders but obstacles remain

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2019
    Too little done to prevent prison deaths, ombudsman says

    As suicides rise 23% in England and Wales, failures of ‘culture and leadership’ come under spotlight

  • Monday, 16 September, 2019
    UK politics & policy
    UK extends public’s right to challenge ‘lenient’ sentences

    Justice ministry adds 14 crimes to offences where harsher judgments can be sought

  • Thursday, 22 August, 2019
    Violence and positive drug tests fall in 10 problem prisons

    Institutions were in a pilot programme using new tactics to address crisis in the system

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  • Sunday, 11 August, 2019
    UK politics & policy
    Johnson orders ‘urgent’ review of sentencing policy

    Prime minister announces 10,000 new prison places in latest populist initiative

  • Thursday, 25 July, 2019
    Self-harm and assault at record level in UK prisons

    Proportion of jails causing ‘serious concern’ points to crisis facing penal system

  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2019
    Ban put on young offenders being sent to Feltham

    Unprecedented response to call for action as violence spikes at youth detention centre

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2019
    UK politics & policy
    Gauke calls for end to prison sentences under 6 months

    UK justice secretary says leniency would improve rehabilitation, in last speech in role

  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2019
    UK prison suicide rate ‘a scandal’, says watchdog

    Independent public inquiry urged as report shows rise in self-inflicted deaths

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2019
    Prisons inspector invokes emergency powers at Bristol jail

    Watchdog cites high levels of violence and squalid conditions

  • Monday, 20 May, 2019
    UK outsourcing
    Extra probation supervision fails to cut reoffending

    Prison numbers have risen since reforms were introduced in 2015

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
    UK outsourcing
    Probation volte face still leaves unanswered questions

    Renationalisation could boost efficiency of service but initiative has its critics

  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2019
    UK privatisation
    Probation services renationalised after chaotic privatisation

    Chief inspector says current system is ‘irredeemably flawed’

  • Thursday, 25 April, 2019
    Analysis
    The meltdown in England’s probation system

    Part-privatisation has led to dislocation of services and calls for radical change

  • Saturday, 13 April, 2019
    Malcolm Rifkind
    Why prisons should never be privatised

    The deprivation of liberty should not be the responsibility of a private company

  • Monday, 8 April, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Outsourcing of prisons needs to be rethought

    Failure of HMP Birmingham experiment raises broader questions

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
    Problem prisons’ fate in question as G4S contract stripped

    Everyone seems to agree test of outsourcing troubled regime has failed

  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2019
    UK politics & policy
    Prisons in ‘enduring crisis’ after years of cuts, say MPs

    Report accuses ministers of taking ‘crisis management’ approach to jails

  • Monday, 1 April, 2019
    G4 loses contract to run Birmingham prison

    Public sector took over Victorian jail last August after intervention by inspector

  • Monday, 1 April, 2019
    Birmingham prison to return to public ownership

    G4S loses contract after watchdog warned of high levels of violence and drug-taking

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