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- Howard League responds to National Audit Office report on electronic monitoring
- Stark figures from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman ought to jolt a new government into action
- “This is the scale of the challenge awaiting a new Prime Minister”: Howard League responds to HM Chief Inspector of Prisons’ Annual Report 2025-26
- “Tolerating overcrowding means tolerating more victims of crime”: Howard League welcomes new independent review of prisons
- Powerful report from IMBs lifts the lid on a prison system in turmoil
- Woodhill: Almost three years in special measures, and still in crisis
- Children on short-term remand: Howard League welcomes inspectors’ review
- Howard League responds to safety in custody statistics
- Dame Anne Owers appointed Chair of the Howard League for Penal Reform
- Manchester prison: Drugs and violence
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