Sentences with phrase «prison policy»

Her current research interests are the use of social media to enhance tobacco control, and smoke free prisons policy.

The justice secretary outlined the idea during his first major speech on prison policy at the Prisoner Learning Alliance this morning.

Labour's attitude to the change in Tory prison policy is also worrying for anyone slightly to the left of Michael Howard on this issue.

The enormous rage that accompanies such a loss shows up in family abuse, in absurd armament programs and budgets, in abusive prison policies, in a passion for capital punishment and in assaults upon the poor in the name of «reform.»

In a related development, chief inspector of prisons Nick Hardwick said the book ban policy was a result of ministers trying to control prison policy from the centre.

And further, they should explain why US states are not able to get similar results, even though prison policy differs greatly between states.

«Improvements in the court system must not be sacrificed as a result of the failures of government prison policy,» he warned.

A Prison Service spokesman commented: «It has been prison policy for a number of years that batons are not routinely used in the juvenile estates.

The revolving door prison policy is straining our police resources and endangering the public.

Ken Clarke, whose liberal prison policy is detested by those on the right, could be a victim of a reshuffle, as might Francis Maude, for his failure to sell the «big society» agenda.

It's easier to imagine the Liberal Democrats doing so: one doesn't need to list the rows that have taken place over VAT, student finance, housing benefit, the immigration cap and so on to prove the point (though some of the Government's biggest disagreements, such as those over prisons policy or the EU, are concentrated within one of the Coalition parties, the Conservatives, rather than between them).

It's embarrassing once again that it comes from a Tory Minister (not even a Lib Dem one) and that, as with prison policy, two former Labour home secretaries, Alan Johnson and David Blunkett in this case, leap onto the wrong side with both feet.

These could include challenges to prison policies leading to overcrowding (ss.

Writing two years ago in the Victorian Council of Social Service's Insight magazine, Queensland academic Chris Cunneen said he was not sure that Victorians would enjoy being compared with the Northern Territory in terms of «prison policy backwardness».

Michael's Gove's first speech on prison policy this morning confirmed much of the optimism of campaigners.

Further to our earlier report on the new Tory prisons policy and its emphasis on providing more prison places a much bigger theme of prisoner rehabilitation emerged from today's launch conference with David Cameron and Nick Herbert:

(8) As leader — with rare exceptions (as on prisons policy)-- David Cameron has eschewed the «politics of and».

Those are the biggest political issues which Labour ran with in their literature and I would anticipate a continued onslaught on a national level over the coming months attacking «police cuts» and Ken Clarke's prisons policy.

In 2016, the Prison Policy Initiative estimated that in the United States that about 2,298,300...

Ken Clarke, justice secretary, comments on his prison policy to the Today programme, amid a speech by Labour suggesting it supports him:

Meanwhile Liberal Democrat justice spokesman Paul Holmes said: «These deeply troubling figures highlight the chronic failure of this government's prison policy.

And, by the nature of the Coalition, that is what we are seeing from Lib Dem ministers — Vince Cable, for example, being outspoken on a graduate tax — and senior Tories like Michael Howard and David Davis on prisons policy.

But asked about their prisons policy, which could see anyone with a sentence of less than six months escape jail, Cameron is off as he claims the mantle of a progressive, but realistic, approach in this sensitive area.

Khan's speech to a Fabian Society / Prison Reform Trust event is the first attempt by a senior Labour figure to sketch out the party's new direction on prisons policy.

That both said what they did points again to Conservative backbench restiveness over, in particular, William Hague and Theresa May's granting of more powers to the EU, Ken Clarke's prisons policy, and Cameron's enthusiasm for the Liberal Democrats.

Yes,» says Peter Wagner, executive director of the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-profit group in Massachusetts that is working with Dallas County to improve the video chat plan.

Unfortunately, our rights are not necessarily reflected in prison policies and we are not in a good position to stand up for our rights when we are in prison.

The Prison Policy Initiative says bail money «perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time.»