Sentences with phrase «of penal reform»

Until recently, restorative justice has been on the fringes of penal reform.

But Clarke pointed to a range of Labour reforms that he regarded as progressive, including the Freedom of Information and Human Rights Acts, and said that before he resigned as home secretary he had been planning to embark on a process of penal reform.

Not exact matches

It should thus be obvious that legal and penal reforms are necessary pre-conditions for the eventual elimination of the death penalty.

Conscious of the suffering of prisoners and well aware that through the centuries many faithful Christians have been wrongfully imprisoned and put to death, Christians have emphasized the importance of visiting prisoners, have campaigned for prison and penal reform and have supported organizations such as Amnesty International that campaigns for prisoners of conscience.

The justice secretary's decision to close down a prison sex investigation is the latest example of his hostility to penal reform groups

In a move which baffled child safety experts and penal reform groups, the institution, which previously held only 16 - to 18 - year - olds, started admitting young adults between the ages of 18 to 21.

Reports that Grayling blocked the investigation into sex in prison outraged penal reform campaigners and public health experts, some of whom believe there could be an unaddressed epidemic of sexual assaults behind bars.

He says we will see another in «a new approach to penal reform» which will end «mass criminalisation of young people» and Labour's «build and fill»em approach to prisons».

Various proposed penal reforms, allegations of abuse at the Fishkill Correctional Facility and the June escape of two convicts from Clinton Correctional Facility kept New York's prison guards at the center of attention for much of 2015.

The Howard League, a penal reform charity, provided a list of cases referred to by MPs, including the example of a 32 - year - old woman who admitted stealing a four - pack of Mars Bars worth 75p.

... a vivid, entertaining and shamelessly manipulative «crusading» melodrama about the impact of a reform warden on a barbarous penal institution.

It described by John Turner on Jan. 23, 1969, as «the most important and all - embracing reform of the criminal and penal law ever attempted at one time in this country.»

Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust said: «Re-establishing the principle of right to review helps to restore balance to a penal system distorted by the 2003 Criminal Justice Act.

Our submission (on women in prison and reform of justice and penal systems) has been published.

When it comes to the rule of law, human rights - sensitive good governance initiatives reform legislation and assist institutions ranging from penal systems to courts and parliaments to better implement that legislation.