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Press releases
- Feltham: Inspection report uncovers awful conditions in prison where staff are being given PAVA spray to use against children
- Updated legal guide highlights urgent need to improve education for children with special educational needs in custody
- Decades of investing in the wrong places has led to the prison capacity crisis: Howard League responds to Independent Review
- Howard League responds to Urgent Notification for Oakhill secure training centre
- Shocking safety and prison performance figures reveal crisis behind bars
- Howard League seeks judicial review of decision to authorise use of PAVA spray in prisons holding children
- Appalling and outrageous: Urgent notification for Pentonville prison represents new low for public service on brink of collapse
- Drugs and violence filling the void as prisons fail to offer positive regimes
- Justice at last for child trafficking victim who was supported by the Howard League
- Expert working group publishes proposals to end the detention of people on IPP sentences
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