Nov 8, 2024 · Last month the Government launched an Independent Sentencing Review to re-evaluate sentencing and particularly look at the use of non-custodial alternatives. This comes at a crucial time given the growing pressures facing the prison system. This summer our prison population reached close to 90,000 across the England and Wales estate.That is almost 10,000 more prisoners than the prison service ...

Mar 27, 2024 · At a time when the prison and probation services are crying out for resources, it seemed rather timely that the Ministry of Justice published its information release giving costs per place and costs per prisoner by individual prison last week (21 March 2024). The information release gives the total “direct resource expenditure” for all prisons for 2022/23 as £2,751,481,717 and the overall ...

Oct 22, 2024 · Public safety at heart of review. Many penal reformers see the review as a chance to re-balance the system, increasing the use of community sentences and reducing the number of women sent to custody (a disproportionate number for relatively minor crimes.

Jan 23, 2020 · Kelly. IPP (Immediate Public Protection) sentences were scrapped im 2012 but many prisoners still remain in custody under these. IPP sentences were designed to indefinately detain those prisoners who remain a risk to the public even after their minimum sentence term.

Feb 3, 2020 · Policy considerations. Many readers will be familiar with these findings. However, for me, the real value of the briefing was a reminder that sentencing policy is concerned with more issues than just the most effective approach to reducing reoffending.

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Sep 11, 2017 · Racism persisting and worsening in the justice system. Last Friday (8 September 2017) was a landmark date in our criminal justice history as David Lammy published his final report: An independent review into the treatment of, and outcomes for, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in the Criminal Justice System. Writing in the Guardian, the MP says that when David Cameron invited him to ...

Nov 19, 2024 · The purpose of prison. Survey respondents were also asked “What is the most important purpose of imprisonment?” with the responses shown in the chart above which I have reproduced from the report. As you can see, just over two out of five (42%) felt that removing offenders from society was the main rationale for imprisoning offenders.

Yesterday (13 October 2022) HMPPS published an Evaluation of Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs). The evaluation, undertaken by a team from the Centre of Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, assessed the first five years of PIPEs operation in both prison …

Aug 2, 2023 · Last week (27 July) the Justice Data Lab published its impact evaluation of the prison-based Thinking Skills Programme (TSP) on reoffending. Authored by Aimee Brinn, John Preston, Rosina Costello, Tyler Opoku, Emily Sampson, Ian Elliott and Annie Sorbie, the 92-page evaluation does conclude that :