19th April 2010
A new literature review by Dr Una Convery examines women offenders’ needs and approaches adopted towards women in terms of policy and practice to address their offending. It is intended to help inform the development of best practice in the approaches adopted towards women who offend in Northern Ireland.
25th March 2010
Alliance leader and the man tipped for the North's justice post, David Ford, makes promising noises about alternatives to prison.
23rd March 2010
A new report by the cross-party Home Affairs Committee has called on the government to place more emphasis on early intervention when it comes to dealing with potential young offenders.
16th March 2010
A new report from the Criminal Justice Inspectorate of Northern Ireland follows the treatment of people with mental health problems through the criminal justice system, starting with the police, moving through prosecution and the courts and ending up with prisons and probation.
10th March 2010
A new report by the National Audit Office in the UK highlights the social and economic cost of short sentences.
10th March 2010
The reduction of the prison population is the focus of two US reports.
10th March 2010
A report released in NI today examines the Probation Board's Community Service schemes.
1st March 2010
'Punishing costs: How locking up children is making Britain less safe' is a new report from the Social Economics Foundation, which presents new results on the full cost to society of the use of prisons. It outlines a policy to change the pattern of public spending for a safer and more inclusive society.
26th February 2010
The provision of families workshops in prison is providing many men with real incentives to change their lives.
24th February 2010
Dame Anne Owers takes an opportunity to highlight the progress made, and the distance yet to go.
Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.