Sentences with phrase «penal reform»

Clarke's sentencing review speech, in which he said some short sentences need to go, is supported by penal reform groups across the country.

Frances Crook is chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, the oldest penal reform charity in the United Kingdom.

I've never rated Wright, but some estimable figures in penal reform think he's a decent enough man hamstrung by the inadequacies of his boss.

Chris Grayling will deliver a surprisingly liberal speech on penal reform today which appears to contradict the widely - held assumption he was going to shift to the right on law and order.

It is the oldest penal reform organisation in the world, named after John Howard.

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.

We need you to act now for penal reform.

The NSPCC, the deputy children's commissioner and the Royal College of Psychiatrists all opposed the plan, along with penal reform groups like the Howard League and the Prison Reform Trust.

Children held in privately - run secure training centres are being regularly subject to physical abuse by staff, a leading penal reform charity has warned.

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.

The news is sure to get a warm response from penal reform charities, who have long argued against what they interpret as a heavy - handed and populist response to minor crimes.

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.

After one penal reform conference she was full of praise for the sociologists — they were such amazing networkers, she laughed.

This is why, incidentally, penal reform groups like the Howard League are so crucial: their contact with prisoners and their families, even when hamstrung by the government, is invaluable.

The charity focuses on penal reform in England and Wales.

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

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.

Mr Clarke's speech said that shorter sentences rarely cut down on reoffending - a point substantiated by almost all penal reform groups.

The letter has signatories from a wide variety of pressure groups, including those involved in HIV - prevention, penal reform, social justice and human rights.

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».

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.

Having out - Liberalled the Liberals on penal reform it got worse.