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Sentencing Council consults on new guidelines for community & custodial sentences, including guidance to consider impact on unborn children.
Rob Allen says the Sentencing Council should be doing more to help develop effective law, policy and practice.
New report from Rob Allen for Transform Justice argues that the Sentencing Council could do more to prevent sentence inflation & reduce the prison population.
The Coalition’s policy of making prison “not smaller but cheaper” has left the system in a parlous state, endangering prisoners, staff and the wider public. An urgent rebalancing of penal policy is required to create an affordable and effective approach to people in conflict with the law.
