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Frances Crook's blog
Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, provides informal comments on the issues of the day.
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Criminal Care?
Our blog on ending the criminalisation of children in residential care
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Press releases
- Medway report vindicates Howard League’s unswerving opposition to secure training centres
- Grieving mothers of young men who died in Glen Parva prison demand action to prevent suicides
- A prisoner is dying every day as deaths, assaults and self-injury in prisons continue to rise
- Leeds prison inspection: A snapshot of a troubled prison system
- Lewes prison: High levels of violence and not enough purposeful activity
- Bronzefield prison: A good report but underlying concerns
- Wormwood Scrubs prison report lays bare the damaging impact of the government’s Transforming Rehabilitation programme
- Criminal Care: Children’s homes are criminalising children
- Prison incidents of “concerted indiscipline” rise by 207% in three years
- Woodhill prison: Where 11 prisoners have taken their own lives since 2012
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