News & views
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Frances Crook's blog
Our Chief Executive, Frances Crook, provides informal comment on the issues of the day.
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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.
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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.
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Howard Journal: Policy Insights
This blog seeks to bring academic research out from the journal and to the attention of a wider audience.
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Policy responses
The Howard League for Penal Reform is often consulted when policy-makers need expert advice. Read our briefings and submissions here.
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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.
Press releases
- Child’s solitary confinement reviewed by the Court of Appeal
- ‘This is our story’: Children and young people describe how they were criminalised while living in residential care
- Howard League responds to Birmingham prison inspection
- Howard League responds to inspection of Rainsbrook secure training centre
- Revealed: The filthy prisons where prisoners can’t keep clean
- Child’s solitary confinement case goes to the Court of Appeal
- Howard League responds to Health and Social Care Committee report on prison health
- Abolish prison sentences of less than 12 months for women, says cross-party group of MPs and peers
- Further rise in assaults, self-injury and lives lost in prisons in England and Wales
- Howard League responds to Chelmsford prison inspection
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