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                                        Howard League Blog
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Press releases
- Prison statistics reveal a bloodbath of assaults, suicide and self-injury
 - Howard League launches Programme to End the Criminalisation of Children in Residential Care
 - Howard League responds to alleged murder in Pentonville prison
 - Holding the system to account: Court of Appeal to hear case of boy who was detained in prison after he should have been released
 - Child arrests in England and Wales fall by 59 per cent in five years
 - Isis prison: Six years old and failing
 - Public put at risk by probation sell-off
 - Transforming Rehabilitation programme puts women’s services under threat
 - Bedford prison: Shocked John Howard in 1773, failing again in 2016
 - Attempt to tackle new psychoactive substances in prison risks repeating mistakes of the past
 
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