Dr Alice Jill Edwards (pictured), a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Degrading Treatment or Punishment,
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Imagine a prison where you are chained and shackled, where you live underground in the dark, no fresh air,
With International Women’s Day here on 8 March, and as the Women’s Justice Board, established by the Government in
During the month of October, National Prison Radio will be celebrating Black History Month. The theme for this year’s
Over the past decade there has been a plethora of television documentaries on prisons. Some are good at giving
As the General Election is over, and a new Government faces the challenging crisis in the justice system, I
Former penitentiary now teaches tourists about the danger of locking up too many people Last month I was in America
Gary Younge is an award-winning journalist and author who has reported on some of the most world-changing events in
“If I could have one wish, I’d change slavery. But we can’t change the past, we can only change
The 27th of January 2015 was International Holocaust Memorial Day. On this important date 70 years ago the 322nd
With the passing of the Probation of Offenders Act in 1907 by the reforming Liberal government of the time
The notion that the public needs to be protected from serious or persistent offenders which calls for the provision
Peter Wright told an audience at the 2012 Perrie Lectures the mistake was the fault of the designer Sir Edmund Du Cane
Rastafarian Yasus Afari, musician, poet and author of ‘Overstanding Rastafari: Jamaica’s Gift to the World’, has returned to the
Two hundred years ago, Britain had two political parties; the Tories, who unashamedly represented the rich, the famous, the
As my friends are apt to point out, Ombudsman is an odd job title to have. It is actually
It is a really macabre title for a book but sums up the content fairly well and covers the
Since ancient times there have been elite groups of unaccountable killers. Around 500 BC, Darius the Great created his