Appointed in 1986 as chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Frances Crook has been responsible for research programmes and campaigns to raise public concern about suicides in prison, the over-use of custody, poor conditions in prison, young people in trouble, and mothers in prison. She was awarded an OBE for services to youth justice in the 2010 New Year Honours List. She was appointed a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics in 2010.
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Published in: Shine A LightWomen offenders: radical reform still urgently neededA leading prison reformer argues that most women in prison today in England and Wales could be rehabilitated more...
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Published in: Shine A LightPrivatising probation: ‘less crime, fewer victims, safer communities.’ Oh, really?
The UK government packaged its privatisation of probation services in England and Wales today as 'the most...
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Published in: Shine A LightWe in the UK punish girls for being vulnerable
Sexually exploited girls may commit crime to try and escape the men who exploit them. Our courts confuse their...
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Published in: Shine A LightPrivate prison ‘cherry-picking compliant prisoners’
UK penal reform charity the Howard League claims newly opened Oakwood Prison, run by G4S, is turning away difficult...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe payment by results merry-go-round
How ‘rolling back the state’ enriches and empowers a few big commercial outsourcers
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Published in: Shine A LightDeaths more likely in bigger and overcrowded prisons
Howard League analysis shows just how harmful supersizing and overcrowding can be