
Can Labour make prison work?
Why Shabana Mahmood is offering liberal reforms with a conservative ethos.
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Why Shabana Mahmood is offering liberal reforms with a conservative ethos.
ByWe must break the cycle of short sentences and reoffending.
ByThe national chair of the Prison Officers’ Association on the next prison officers’ strike.
ByNew sentencing guidelines have become the tool of cynical politicians playing divide-and-conquer politics.
ByLazy “tough on crime” rhetoric has led to a crisis of overcrowding.
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BySentencing reform is a tough sell for the law-and-order loving British public.
ByThe political bidding war over tougher sentences must end.
ByAusterity has reduced a working system to one of ungovernable horrors.
ByThe film stars former inmates playing themselves as they stage a performance on the inside.
ByPrisons inspector Charlie Taylor on jails failing inmates and society.
ByThe new government should focus on reducing demand on our prisons rather than expensively building new ones.
ByThe Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has been told that space will run out in less than three weeks.
ByLabour must address the overcrowding crisis, however unpalatable the solutions.
ByGovernment scrutiny is being lost in the attempt to score rhetorical points.
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