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Less crime, safer communities, fewer people in prison

We have launched our new campaign, which you can find by visiting our website.В  Please take two minutes to take action for the Howard League and help us put penal reform at the top of the political agenda during the general election and beyond.

March 5, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Campaigns, Children and young people, Government policy, Howard League, Overcrowding, Prisons, Public Services, Rehabilitation, Sentencing, Victims  No Comments

Prison suicides call for radical change

I have just given a talk on suicide in prisons to MPs and Peers in the all party parliamentary group on suicide prevention.В  I talked about Jeffrey Horler, a 15 year old from Great Yarmouth who came from a very poor family and who had a history of minor trouble when he set fire to [...]

July 14, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Campaigns, Inside prisons, Self-injuring  2 Comments

Women dying in custody

We launched a campaign to prevent women dying in custody today and had a bit of a run about with the figures.В  So some explanation might be helpful.В  The main focus of our work over years has been how we could work to reduce the use of prison for women (and men) and prevent deaths.
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July 13, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Campaigns, Government policy, Howard League, Inside prisons, Self-injuring, Women in custody  One Comment

My favourite Tories

I chaired a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference with my two favourite Tories:В  Cllr Les Lawrence and Edward Garnier QC MP.В  The Howard League shared the meeting with TACT, the biggest charitable provider of fostercare, and Jon Fayle explained some research done for them about the complicated links between children in care and offending.
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September 30, 2008   Posted in: Campaigns  No Comments

Child protection in Staffordshire

Some weeks ago we sent a child protection referral to Staffordshire county council following the chief inspector’s report into the forcible strip searching and videoing of a child in Werrington prison. I got reply. Apparently the council doesn’t think it has to bother to investigate properly because the threshold of harm has not been crossed. [...]

December 14, 2007   Posted in: Campaigns  2 Comments

Teenager let down by Crawley Council

We have been supporting a teenage boy in prison who was released on 8th October 2007 to homeless accommodation and now his local authority is telling him to look in the yellow pages for accommodation as he is not a “priority need”. This lad has been rejected by his parents, has spent weeks in residential [...]

November 8, 2007   Posted in: Campaigns  No Comments