24 April 2025 When I first started working with children in custody at the Howard League for Penal Reform back in 2005, a huge part of my work was representing girls in the five girls’ units in adult women’s YOIs, which had recently opened in New Hall, Cookham Wood, Eastwood Park, Downview and Foston Hall. […]

5 April 2025 The stinging sense of injustice felt by many poeple serving IPP sentences when they are recalled for matters that in no other circumstance would warrant a period in prison has always been acute.  It is even greater now that, following the implementation of the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024, any recall to […]