Archive for July, 2008

Downing Street orders games console seizure

So prisoners are to have their games consoles confiscated, the day after a disastrous by election defeat.В  Those two phrases are connected.
It was Number 10 that ordered prison governors to count how many consoles there were in prisons, as governors didn’t have better things to do, and as if Downing Street should not perhaps be [...]

July 25, 2008   Posted in: Government policy  No Comments

Prison lessons from New York

I went to New York last week, on a visit with our Commission on English Prisons Today.В  We met all sorts of people from NYPD to senior
judges, from prisoners and staff on Rikers Island to academics.
The thing that struck me most was the optimism amongst practitioners.В  Police, corrections, voluntary agencies, judges, lawyers, everyone
seemed to claim [...]

July 17, 2008   Posted in: Government policy  No Comments

House of Commons reception

We had a lovely reception on the terrace of the House of Commons yesterday with about 200 members and supporters. Our President, Lord Carlile, talked about our legal work helping childen and the campaign we launched this week.
I was particularly pleased that a good sprinkling of senior MPs came along – Nick Herbert, Edward Garnier, [...]

July 4, 2008   Posted in: Howard League  No Comments

The Howard League in Europe

(Unofficial) translation into English:
WRITTEN QUESTION E-2231/08
By Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (ALDE) to the Commission
Following our research with Defence for Children International to develop a set of indicators that would apply across every EU country to protect children in custody from violence, this exchange took place with the European Commission:
Defence for Children International – The Netherlands has conducted [...]

July 1, 2008   Posted in: Government policy, Howard League  No Comments