Crime and Punishment… Or Rehabilitation? From an early age, we’re taught that behaving badly results in punishment. Whatever your background, it’s likely that you swiftly discovered that acting ‘wrongly’ always [...]
Prisons Up in Smoke: The Smoking Ban The government recently announced their plans to phase in a smoking ban across all 136 prisons in England and Wales, beginning next year. [...]
Britain’s ‘Death Row’? The Rise of Deaths in UK Prisons In 2014, a total of 240 inmates died behind bars. 86 of these were suicides, 4 were due to ‘unnatural [...]
The difference between the SPS (Scottish Prison Service) and NOMs (National Offender Management Service) In the United Kingdom, we have two distinctive prison services. It is the responsibility of the [...]
As Election Day Approaches: What’s in Store for Prisons Such as HMP Wandsworth, Wormwood Scrubs and HMP Dartmoor? With the next General Election only a few weeks away, many [...]
‘Protecting the Public’ at the Expense of Basic Human Rights? The Pitfalls of IPP Sentencing In 2005, David Blunkett, then Home Secretary under the Labour government, introduced IPP sentencing. It [...]
