richardjgarside.bsky.social
Director @crimeandjustice | Law and justice | Materialist not idealist | Facts not feelings | My views, not my employer’s
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I made a similar point a couple of weeks ago
Politicians have talked tough but have failed “to do the difficult work: thinking about what an appropriate level of imprisonment is, how the prison estate should be organised, and how it should be paid for”
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Make reform, not punishment, the aim of sentencing, argues Melanie Jameson of Quakers in Criminal Justice
This is the third in an ongoing series of articles we are publishing discussing ideas for sentencing reform
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Create space for bold ideas to flourish, argues Andrew Neilson of @thehowardleague.bsky.social
This is the second in an ongoing series of articles we are publishing discussing ideas for sentencing reform
www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/create-space...
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Valuable time that could be devoted to their charitable mission, he pointed out, is taken up with competing over scarce funds to finance this work
It feels to me that the bureaucracy of begging is becoming more, not less, pervasive
What do you think?
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The most senior civil servant at the Ministry of Justice, Antonia Romeo, has admitted that the current budget for prison maintenance is not enough to make inroads into the estimated £1.8 bn maintenance backlog
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House of Lords Library briefing on the UK’s approach to counter-terrorism
lordslibrary.parliament.uk/terrorism-in...
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“Why didn't you say anything about why so many people shoplift nowadays? And talk about actual criminals, f.e. the companies running the prisons, who drain taxpayers money out of the public sector?”
Because none of these were the subject of the interview
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Here’s the full interview
youtu.be/vp7CXYfnk4U?...
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Sorry you were disappointed. The interview you shared isn't the one I gave last night