Andrew Neilson is director of Campaigns, The Howard League for Penal Reform.
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Published in: Shine A LightNew prisons, old politics?Without more radical reform, new for old prisons will repeat the mistakes of the past.
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Published in: Shine A LightExploding the myth of ‘payment by results’National Audit Office issues damning report on outsourcing model that claims to guarantee value for money.
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Published in: Shine A LightYour 10 year old is locked up overnight in a police cell. All right?Across England and Wales children are being locked up overnight in police cells in very large numbers. The Howard League has persuaded some senior police officers that it's not all right.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKInspector "very concerned" by G4S prison praised by GraylingChris Grayling discribed G4S run prison HMP Oakwood as an "excellent model for the future of the prison service". But a report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons this week tells a very different story...
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Published in: Shine A LightNew report confirms problems of short custodial sentences for children
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Warehousing children in a prison filled with other troubled young people, often for a period of weeks, is counterproductive, inhumane and a pitiful waste of public money.
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Published in: Shine A LightFear, bullying, violence, grime and overcrowding: one prison in Austerity Britain
HM Inspectorate of Prisons reports that cramped and dirty Lincoln Prison has rising prisoner numbers, falling staff levels, and one prisoner still inside nine years after the end of his sentence. More than half of vulnerable prisoners said that they had been victimised by other prisoners and nearly half said that they had been victimised by staff. And the government wants to keep on cutting costs.