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A building with a sign that says 'HMP Northumberland'.

Learning lessons from the past: What the Government can do right now to do to radically reduce the prison population

David Scott outlines how to urgently reduce the prison population in today's article.

17th February 2017
Dirty prison bed and walls.

Anaesthetising the Pain: Prison chaos and the enormous demand for drugs

In this blog, David Scott explores the demand for drugs in prisons.

14th February 2017

Prison is not a safe place for people with mental health problems

In this post, Deborah H. Drake and David Scott explore mental health problems and prisons.

6th February 2017
A poster that displays statistics of racial disparities in NYPD stop & frisk.

Anti-racist criminology? A recall

In this important article, Rod Earl discusses the need to recall anti-racism in criminology.

13th January 2017
Two white men in police masks smiling and swearing at the camera.

Naming the prison for what it is: a place of institutionally-structured violence

Today's post features David Scott, who outlines the need to consider the prison as a space of institutionally-structured violence.

10th January 2017
Barbed wire above a fence.

Prison deaths: a case of corporate manslaughter?

In this article, Steve Tombs applies the concept of corporate manslaughter to cases of prison deaths.

5th December 2016
A building that says 'HM Prison Woodhill'.

Prisons systematically generate suffering and death: thinking beyond reform

In today's post, David Scott investigates self-inflicted deaths in prison.

29th November 2016

Of Dangerous Nexuses and How to Survive in a Post-truth World

Giulia Zampini from the University of Greenwich presents thoughts on the Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative conference.

25th November 2016
A brick wall with a picture of a person in a hoodie thinking 'What Next?'

Criminalise or ‘disappear’ the young? No path to a ‘Great Meritocracy’

Ross Fergusson considers the stark choices that the policy swings of successive governments now present to many 16-17-year-olds.

21st November 2016
A prison building at night.

Bloodbaths and prison staff: Considering the actual state of our prisons

In this post, David Scott explores the current state of Britain's prisons.

14th November 2016

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