Prison Reform

drugs and women in prison

The current Lord Chancellor, Michael Gove has announced that a team has been set up to investigate how to establish problem-solving courts. In 2014, the Howard League published a report called, are problem-solving courts the way forward for justice? (Ward, 2014). This working paper…

Trends in the world female imprisonment 2016

Trends in the world female imprisonment 2016

During 2015, Micheal Tonry the president of the European Society of Criminology, explained that the United States is the land of mass incarceration. Within Europe, criminologists, policy-makers and…

Five Shocking Facts About the Cost of Private Female Prisons

Revelations about the financial cost of keeping women in private prisons

Private prisons operate within different countries. Within the United States, private corporations are known to profit from…

how are children affected by imprisonment of mothers?

How are children affected by imprisonment of mothers?

The early 21st century has been labelled by some people as an age of mass imprisonment. This has caused concern with many practitioners, policy-makers…