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Prison

Prison punishments up 34%

The Howard League finds that prisoners were sentenced to almost 800 years extra imprisonment in 2016 via the adjudications system, a jump of more than a third.

Criminal Justice

Child arrests keep falling

The Howard League’s six year campaign to cut the number of children arrested has been an outstanding success.

Infographics

The sad details of prison suicides

New interactive infographic from the Howard League show the chilling and tragic details of the ever-growing number of prison suicides.

Policing

Child arrests down 59% in 5 years

A 5 year campaign by the Howard League plus big changes in police approach to arresting children has led to the number of arrests more than halving since 2010.

Prison

The fall and fall of prison officer numbers

The Howard League says that the Ministry of Justice has failed in its recent attempt to recruit more prison officers leading to increasingly unsafe prisons.

Prison

Preventing prison suicide

Not only did prison exacerbate existing problems because they were not appropriately addressed within the prison system, but imprisonment made many prisoners feel powerless to deal with issues such as their children’s wellbeing.

On Probation

What’s it like being on probation?

Supervisible An intriguing new report by Professor Wendy Fitzgibbon and Carolyne Kardia for the Howard League for Penal Reform gives an insight into what it’s like being

Policing

Why do we criminalise young people in care?

The children who are being criminalised whilst teenagers are the same children who, when younger, were sympathetically viewed as vulnerable, innocent and highly deserving of society’s help and protection.

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