Prisons and Criminal Justice
Submissions to consultations
- 18 April 2013
Statement submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment: 5th Periodic Review of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - 17 April 2013
Submission to the review of the Editors' Code of Practice - March 2013
The Howard League's response to the Sentencing Council’s Sexual Offences Guideline Consultation - 22 February 2013
Response to the London Assembly’s call for views of the London’s Police and Crime Plan - 21 February 2013
Response to the Ministry of Justice consultation on Transforming Rehabilitation
- 9 October 2012
Response to the consultation on the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (Crime) - 29 September 2012
Response to the second consultation on the need for a UK Bill of Rights - 22 June 2012
Response to the Ministry of Justice consultation on effective probation services - 22 June 2012
Response to the Ministry of Justice consultation on effective community sentences - 14 May 2012
Submission to the Transforming Bailiff Action Consultation - 31 January 2012
Submission to the Riots Communities and Victims Panel - focusing on young adults in the criminal justice system - 10 January 2012
Submission to the Labour Party's Justice Working Group Policy Review - focusing on minimum age of criminal responsibility and the importance of localism in the criminal justice system - 6 December 2011
Response to the overarching guidelines professional consultation: allocation, offences taken into consideration and totality - 5 December 2011
Evidence submitted to the Leveson inquiry on the culture, practice and ethics of the press in relation to the criminal justice system - October 2011
Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review for the UK - 19 September 2011
Evidence of the Howard League for Penal Reform to the Justice Commons Select Committee on Joint Enterprise in England and Wales - 31 August 2011
Submission to Ministry of Justice proposals to revise ‘Early Days in Custody’ PSI and the response from the Ministry of Justice with reference to the abolition of the mandatory requirement for a legal services officer in prison (14 October 2011) - 25 July 2011
Response to the Sentencing Council’s professional consultation on the burglary offences guideline - 20 June 2011
Response to the Sentencing Council's consultation on the drug offences guideline - 17 May 2011
Response to the Home Office consultation on more effective responses to anti-social behaviour - May 2011
Response to the consultation on CPS Interim Guidance on Perverting the Course of Justice - charging cases involving rape and/or domestic violence allegations - March 2011
Response to Breaking the Cycle: Effective punishment, rehabilitation and sentencing of offenders Green Paper - Response to Green Paper Consultation on Legal Aid
- 14 February 2011
Response to Sentencing Council's consultation on the assault guidelines - 16 September 2010
Submission to the Justice Affairs Select Committee's inquiry on the role of the probation service - 24 June 2010
Submission to the consultation on reform of the coroner system - 11 January 2010
Response to the consultation on the Code for Crown Prosecutors - Deaf prisoner factfile and ministerial response to a letter from the Howard League and RNID on the treatment of deaf prisoners
- 20 November 2009
Submission to the Ministry of Justice consultation on the future of the parole board - September 2009
Submission to the Ministerial Board on Deaths in Custody - February 2009
Response to the Legal Services Commission Consultation on prison law funding - 21 January 2009
Submission to the Justice Select Committee for its inquiry into the role of the prison officer: Turnkeys or professionals? - 24 September 2008
Submission to the Policing Green Paper - from neighbourhood to the national: policing our communities together - 17 September 2008
Submission to the independent review of the diversion of offenders with mental health problems or learning disabilities away from prison - July 2008
Submission to the Ministry of Justice consultation on Titan prisons - 16 June 2008
Letter to Sentencing Commission Working Group Secretariat - April 2008
Submission on Justice Reinvestment to the House of Commons Justice Committee - 25 February 2008
Concerns over the categorisations of young adult male indeterminate sentence prisoners PSI 07/2008
The Howard League at the United Nations
Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice was held in Salvador, Brazil on 12-19 Apirl 2010.
As a non-governmental organisation with special consultative status with the UN the Howard League held the following ancillary meetings at the Congress:
Children in Custody - was held on Wednesday 14 April 2010
Speakers were:
Frances Crook, Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform; Sue Wade, Chair of the Howard League for Penal Reform; Marianne Liebmann, Qakers International; Virginia Murillo Herrara, Defence for Children International in Costa Rica
Inspection of places of detention - was held on Wednesday 14 April 2010
Speakers were:
Frances Crook, Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform; Sue Wade, Chair of the Howard League for Penal Reform; Andres Hernandez from Transparency International and a speaker from Penal Reform International.
Read the statement submitted by the Howard League
fileadmin/howard_league/user/pdf/The_British_inspectorate_model_factsheet.pdf
Other submissions to consultations
History of the penal reform movement
