Dame Sally Coates’s review, published this week and accepted yesterday by Michael Gove, sets out the right forward.
The first wave of PCCs proved their critics wrong. The second wave must seek to expand their role.
The Justice Secretary’s speech offers hope for those who want to see lower crime, and lives put back on track.
A blanket ban may seem disproportionate, but is necessary to stay ahead of the chemists and suppliers who deal in these substances.
“So you don’t arrive at a decision because you’re a barrister and therefore you favour the bar or because you’re a solicitor and therefore you favour the solicitors’ firms.”
Today we are announcing new contracts with private and voluntary providers to ensure that no new offender will be left stranded with no help when they leave prison.
As next May draws nearer, no political party is yet facing up to the scale of challenge of deficit reduction.
The CSJ has long witnessed the incredible power of the best voluntary organisations to transform lives.
Gove, May, IDS, Grayling, Maude. Unlike the minnows of Labour and UKIP, these are serious people delivering serious change for serious times.
Cameron shouldn’t abandon his campaign on the economy and security.
Prisons are meant to be places of punishment – and if you count enforced, soul-destroying idleness as a punishment – then they are fulfilling this function
I would rather Boris was in Westminster North, Ilford North and, yes, Enfield North than Newark: we need him.
All prison and probation services should be fully devolved to Police and Crime Commissioners.