Archive for June, 2009

The Howard League office

This will be my last blog of the old system as we are redesigning the page for next week so I thought I would write something about our office.В  We have 20 staff, and volunteers and interns who come in to help.В  It is busy and a bit chaotic and shambly, but friendly and everyone [...]

June 26, 2009   Posted in: Howard League  No Comments

Ford prison well done

Sometimes there are little nuggets of good news.В  I was contacted by a concerned member of the public last month saying how distressing he found it to watch young children and women with buggies trudging from the station to Ford prison to visit their fathers, a round trip of more than two miles.В  He suggested [...]

June 12, 2009   Posted in: Inside prisons  No Comments

Building prisons is not the answer

This government has built an additional 21,000 prison places since 1997 (see Parliamentary question 1 June by Dr Rudi Vis MP). It just goes to show that you cannot build your way out of a prison overcrowding crisis. The figures are daunting. This total of 21,000 extra prison places includes new prisons (run by the [...]

June 11, 2009   Posted in: Government policy, Overcrowding  No Comments