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Are courts welcoming? Are defendants judged based on appearance? Can court users understand legal jargon?
Courtwatcher Rosemin & Jessica Jacobson @BirkbeckUoL discuss courtwatcher observations from 2,000+ cases in London mags courts.
🎧 https://t.co/UY1Po2yBSz
Yet another review out today on the prison capacity crisis in England and Wales. Will it bring about a sustainable future? @robroballen has some doubts.
https://t.co/JUqWA20W8r
Yet another review out today on the prison capacity crisis in England and Wales. Will it bring about a sustainable future? @robroballen has some doubts.
https://t.co/JUqWA20W8r
Will the Gauke review and the government's response to it do enough to avert a continuing prison cacacity crisis? Spoiler alert - maybe not
https://t.co/1TkwTySMIG
David Gauke's Sentencing Review out tomorrow is set to recommend fewer short jail terms, a new scheme of earned early release and stronger community sentences. What will all this mean in practice? https://t.co/FbuISjWuY5
What can the prison system in England and Wales learn from the Netherlands?
A country not long ago renting out its unused facilities to other countries is now having to consider putting mattresses in cells to increase its own capacity.
https://t.co/y02WAEIJZ3
"My face felt like it was on fire, I couldn't see. I was just left on my own”.
There are better ways of reducing violence in youth prisons than spraying pepper into childrens eyes. https://t.co/jTxumqdEul
@OasisRestore, the first Secure School opened to great fanfare last Summer, promising a revolution in youth justice.
Two recently published inspection reports provide a mixed and sobering assessment of what’s been achieved so far.
https://t.co/btMYtiQFe3
The secure school promised to herald a revolution in youth justice . Monitoring reports suggest it's struggling to meet some all too familiar challenges.
https://t.co/btMYtiQFe3
How Goes the Revolution? A difficult start for the first Secure School
@robroballen on two contradictory inspections of with some serious concerns:
"the inexperience and low morale of a staff team that do not have consistent boundaries and expectations."
https://t.co/Kj86iPHlYG