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richiethomson.bsky.social
Supporter of evidence based justice policy. Involved with Resilience Learning Partnership & BRAG Enterprises. Grateful to have wonderful people in my life and a dug. Scotland.
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Sometimes, you just need to figure out if you want to be a battery human or a free-range one.

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BBC News - Gwynedd house prices plunge as council acts on second homes - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... sensible housing policy at last

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Many thanks to Richard (@richiethomson.bsky.social) from Community Justice Scotland for speaking to our undergraduate #Criminology students. Some good Justice careers and employability questions came up, too.

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Rona Dougall discusses the £1billion HMP Glasgow with myself and Jordan Robertson on Scotland Tonight at 10:40pm on STV. Jordan offers apt insights from having previously been incarcerated in Victorian-era Barlinnie, which this new 'super jail' will replace in 2028. [1/🧵] news.stv.tv/west-central...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I lived in a Jewish community in the late 1980s. I saw holocaust tattoos and what I now understand to be PTSD. Over the decades, I've seen humanity improve so much, but we seem to now be on the precipice of hate, delusion and anger. BBC News - Holocaust survivors fear... www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

This is also a straightforward case where you can clearly see that it is a staggering misuse of imprisonment. If this is the way we use such punishments there is little hope of reducing the absurd numbers we continue to keep behind bars.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This just seems extraordinary - the rise of the far right against decency just seems so pervasive. "Conservative groups threatening to take companies to court over their diversity, inclusion and equality commitments" - Apple board pushes against diversity rollback call www.bbc.com/news/article...

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More sad news about the English probation service, where there’s been endless rearrangement of the deckchairs driven by strategic delusion and underfunding. BBC News - Probation: 'Too few staff, with too little experience, managing too many offenders' www.bbc.com/news/article...

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New Regional Employment Councils with employers on their boards to support access to employment after prison in England. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

We joined together with the most senior former judges in England and Wales, to call on the government to reverse the trend of imposing ever longer sentences. Our paper looks at the problem, the causes and suggests what could be done: howardleague.org/news/sentenc...

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"We cannot build our way out of this crisis. The billions earmarked for opening new jails would be better invested in securing an effective and responsive probation service, working to cut crime in the community." Read more from our Chief Executive here: www.bigissue.com/opinion/pris...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Macquarie Dictionary’s annual word of the year for 2024 is enshittification. This is defined as “the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided”

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

📢 Join Our Board of Trustees 📢 We believe in the power of lived experience to drive meaningful change. We’re looking to recruit Trustees who have been directly impacted by the criminal justice system to join our team and help guide our work. 📧 email us at [email protected]

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Useful article. For me it underscores the importance of quality analysis. I.e which triangulates quant data, qualitative data and draws on the expertise of lived experience and the workforce. We need many lenses to address the Dunning Krugar Effect among strategists.

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Great to see Nick Hartshorne-Evans has been awarded BEM. The Pumping Marvellous Foundation is a patient led support system. A great example of how coordinating living experience evidence & peer support adds so much to professional knowledge and patient wellbeing.

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BBC News - Starmer asks UK regulators for ideas to boost growth www.bbc.com/news/article... You never know how much of this is politics but it would be a good idea to use more solid economic analysis to support the design and delivery of regulations

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

I keep perceiving a bias across the justice system. Anchors to a notion that men aged over 25 are impervious to vulnerability. Meanwhile, at the hard edges of trauma, men learn to hide it just to survive for a while. But hiding and ignoring vulnerability is so harmful!

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Disappointed to see confirmation that the number of <1 year sentences creeping up again in Scotland. Still well below pre-pandemic but infers that more people have had their desistance & recovery placed at risk through imprisonment rather than evidence based community solutions.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Although child protection and children's rights have developed significantly, this can still happen in the UK! BBC News - CCTV shows pupils abused and locked in padded room. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unison-sco... Free 1 hr lunchtime event this Weds. Join us for a critical & radically inspired discussion on Justice Services in social work. Great speakers! Please pass on.

submitted 100 days ago • 2 comments

I’m looking for a potential collaborative PhD supervisor in #criminology who has in interest in women involved with the community justice system. I’m thinking of exploring how mothers who are under supervision negotiate their identities as “offender” and “mother” and how to be both #AcademicSky

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

Homeless people to be given cash in first major UK trial to reduce poverty

submitted 100 days ago • 23 comments