Learning is vital to rehabilitation; my committee’s new report contains a clear programme for long-overdue reform.
A focus on sentencing must come with much closer attention on what we do with those in jail.
But prisons policy won’t gain more priority from politicians without doing so from the rest of us.
The last in our mini-series of articles on ConservativeHome this week about prisons, policy and reform.
The second in our mini-series of articles on ConservativeHome this week about prisons, policy and reform.
The first in a mini-series of articles on ConservativeHome this week about prisons, policy and reform.
Improved educational provision is key. Increased use of boarding schools can offer a greater chance of stability.
Some £18 billion a year is incurred as a cost to the taxpayer as a result of reoffending.
It seems they are more interested in gender identity than the concerns that have been raised in women’s prisons.
Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
We would invite Lord Herbert to meet some of the women’s groups, parents, gay and lesbian people, and sportswomen whose views differ from his.
When it comes to law and order, it is undeniable that our voters are in favour of firm policies to tackle crime and antisocial behaviour.
He wrote Cameron’s “Hug a Hoody” speech, and during the Barnard Castle affair leapt to the defence of Cummings.
An interesting mental exercise is to identify an institution that expands through failure. I can only come up with one – prisons.
The Prime Minister tasked me, the Home Secretary and the Attorney General with leading the Government’s fight against crime.