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Building new prisons? How about no prison at all?
By: Richard GarsideDate: Tuesday, 25 June, 2013Download: Policy Exchange, Future Prisons.pdfWhat to do with the ageing and expensive prison estate in England and Wales. Take Pentonville prison. One of...
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'This House believes that women should not be sent to prison'
By: Richard GarsideDate: Thursday, 02 March, 2006Some years ago the criminologist Andrew Rutherford made a habit of explaining to magistrates the consequences of their decisions.It was of course for...
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The struggle? It's only just beginning
By: Rebecca RobertsDate: Monday, 11 November, 2013The week ending the 25th of October 2013 is memorable to me for a number of reasons.It was the week in which the Reclaim Justice Network held two...
View ArticlePrison building 'short-sighted and contradictory'
Date: Monday, 09 November, 2015The Chancellor, George Osborne, has set out his priorities for the Spending Review and identified the country's prisons 'as an example of one public service badly in need...
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Holloway: The beginning of a revolution?
By: Rebecca Roberts and Claire CainDate: Thursday, 10 December, 2015At this year’s Conservative party conference, Michael Gove apparently heralded in a new era for criminal justice reform. Prisons need...
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Close Holloway and then close all the large women's prisons
By: Rona EpsteinDate: Thursday, 24 December, 2015On 25 November 2015, the Justice Secretary Michael Gove announced that he was planning to close HMP Holloway. What a good idea!It chimes in well with...
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Building new prisons? How about no prison at all?
By: Richard GarsideDate: Tuesday, 25 June, 2013Download: Policy Exchange, Future Prisons.pdfWhat to do with the ageing and expensive prison estate in England and Wales. Take Pentonville prison. One of...
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'This House believes that women should not be sent to prison'
By: Richard GarsideDate: Thursday, 02 March, 2006Some years ago the criminologist Andrew Rutherford made a habit of explaining to magistrates the consequences of their decisions.It was of course for...
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The struggle? It's only just beginning
By: Rebecca RobertsDate: Monday, 11 November, 2013The week ending the 25th of October 2013 is memorable to me for a number of reasons.It was the week in which the Reclaim Justice Network held two...
View ArticlePrison building 'short-sighted and contradictory'
Date: Monday, 09 November, 2015The Chancellor, George Osborne, has set out his priorities for the Spending Review and identified the country's prisons 'as an example of one public service badly in need...
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Holloway: The beginning of a revolution?
By: Rebecca Roberts and Claire CainDate: Thursday, 10 December, 2015At this year’s Conservative party conference, Michael Gove apparently heralded in a new era for criminal justice reform. Prisons need...
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Close Holloway and then close all the large women's prisons
By: Rona EpsteinDate: Thursday, 24 December, 2015On 25 November 2015, the Justice Secretary Michael Gove announced that he was planning to close HMP Holloway. What a good idea!It chimes in well with...
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The prisons crisis. Alternatives to incarceration
By: Richard GarsideDate: Tuesday, 06 February, 2018Download: Richard Garside, The prison crisis. Full slides, 5 Feb 2018.pdfListen to this speech hereThank you for the invitation to speak this evening...
View ArticleClose prisons rather than try to fix them
Date: Thursday, 08 February, 2018Our Director Richard spoke about the prisons crisis at a meeting of the Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique earlier this week.Richard said that that 'the prisons crisis is...
View ArticleMajor conference on prison abolition in May 2019
Date: Thursday, 20 December, 2018The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and the Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative at The Open University, in partnership with Professor Joe Sim of Liverpool...
View ArticleConference cancellation: Prison abolition in the UK
Date: Wednesday, 06 March, 2019We are saddened to announce that the conference, Prison Abolition in the UK, planned for 23 and 24 May, has been cancelled. Unfortunately, one of our conference partners...
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Getting out of the prisons crisis
By: Richard GarsideDate: Thursday, 25 April, 2019There are at least two ways of thinking about the prisons crisis and about what it would mean to get out the crisis.First, we can think about the prison...
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Prison violence and the limits of reform
By: Richard GarsideDate: Thursday, 04 July, 2019In May last year I was among more than a hundred organisational representatives who trooped over to the (unfortunately named given current events in...
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Prison violence and the limits of reform
By Richard GarsideThursday, 4 July 2019In May last year I was among more than a hundred organisational representatives who trooped over to the (unfortunately named given current events in Syria and...
View ArticleAfter prison
Our long-term project looking at how the land currently occupied by prisons might be re-developed for the benefit of local communities.Across the United Kingdom, nearly 150 prisons occupy hundreds, if...
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