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  • Prisons

    The rising tide: Additional days for rule-breaking in prison

    The rising tide: Additional days for rule-breaking in prison reveals how the disciplinary system in prisons has become unsustainable, with the total number of additional days of imprisonment handed down...

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  • Prisons

    Out of control

    ...290,000 additional days of imprisonment were handed down to prisoners during 2016 – a 75 per cent rise in only two years – as jails have been brought to breaking...

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  • Prisons

    A Million Days

    ...prisons deteriorate. More than 215,000 days – or 590 years – of additional imprisonment were imposed on prisoners found to have broken prison rules last year. This report finds that...

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  • Prisons

    Earned regression?

    ...the existing mechanism of additional days the cornerstone of its new ‘earned progression’ model, as detailed in the Sentencing Bill introduced before Parliament. This briefing explains how additional days are...

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  • Prisons

    Justice does not stop at the prison gate

    ...additional days of imprisonment. Illustrated with anonymised case-studies from the Howard League’s legal work representing hundreds of children and young adults in prison, the briefing shows how adjudications have been...

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  • Prisons

    Punishment in prisons

    Almost 160,000 days – or 438 years – of additional imprisonment were imposed on prisoners found to have broken prison rules in 2014. The number of extra days imposed on...

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