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    Frances Crook's blog

    Our Chief Executive, Frances Crook, provides informal comment on the issues of the day.

  • Pair of police officers on duty in Appleby at the New Fair, Cumbria, UK

    Criminal Care?

    This blog provides a deeper insight into the issues uncovered in our programme to end the criminalisation of children in residential care. It includes contributions from children who have lived in children's homes, as well as analysis by researchers.

  • Prisoners return from their jobs to their wings at Wandsworth priso

    Justice and Fairness in Prisons

    This blog explores justice and fairness in prisons. It includes examples of good and bad practice, and records the experience of people in prison as well as analysis by researchers.

  • Howard Journal: Policy Insights

    This blog seeks to bring academic research out from the journal and to the attention of a wider audience.

  • Wandsworth prison interior

    Policy responses

    The Howard League for Penal Reform is often consulted when policy-makers need expert advice. Read our briefings and submissions here.

  • Exterior wall from inside the prison of HMP Pentonville

    COVID-19: OUR RESPONSE

    The Howard League office is closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Please read our submissions to government about the situation in prisons.

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