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Can payment by results stimulate innovation?
PbR and innovation This is the fifth post in a blog series looking at the lessons I’ve learned

Earning and spending money in prison
New Prison Inspectors report on earning and spending money in prison reveals a number of injustices including the fact that pay has been frozen for 14 years.

Housing benefit changes threaten offender resettlement
Langley House Trust spells out disastrous consequences of this April’s housing benefit changes for supported housing providers working with offenders & other vulnerable groups

Staff suffer brunt of probation reforms
New research from Professor Gill Kirton examines the highly negative impact on a mainly female workforce of Transforming Rehabilitation, the privatisation of the probation service.

The Internet and Drug Markets
One of the most interesting themes of the report is the exploration of the reasons why experienced drug users choose to use online drug markets rather than conventional sources of supply.

Good news on young offenders
While there are plenty of things to complain about in our justice system, it seems churlish not to celebrate the continuing fall in youth crime and the reduction in the numbers of young people drawn into the system.
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