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After the prisons are closed
By Richard GarsideThursday, 14 November 2019This month, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is embarking on a new, long-term programme, a commitment we freely acknowledge could run for many...
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Friday, 15 November 2019The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is embarking on a new, long-term programme.The new programme, with the working title After Prison, is grounded in a simple proposition:...
View ArticlePunishment is the pandemic
Tuesday, 12 May 2020Our Chair of Trustees, Charlie Weinberg, has written a piece on the problems of punishment for the website of Abolition, the US-based journal of radical and insurgent politics.In...
View ArticleAbolitionism and decarceration: Our summer reading list
Friday, 31 July 2020As the summer holidays get underway, even if you're staying at home for your holiday, we thought you might be interested in reading our back catalogue of articles on prison...
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Close Holloway and then close all the large women's prisons
By Rona EpsteinThursday, 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 the...
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Build communities, not prisons
By Deborah H Drake and David ScottThursday, 10 August 2017The prison industrial complex is large and growing.Prison building and expansion projects generate trade exhibitions, mail-order/Internet...
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The prisons crisis. Alternatives to incarceration
By Richard GarsideTuesday, 6 February 2018Download (PDF 1.31MB)Thank you for the invitation to speak this evening on the prison crisis. I admire the work and values of Le Monde Diplomatique. It is good...
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