Poverty Debate

"Every day, our criminal justice system deals with the consequences of social breakdown. When the same characters - the same individuals - appear in local courts time and time again, we must recognise there is something wrong with the system."
- Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, will be giving a speech on criminal justice on Monday 2 November 2009.

For details of the event at Canary Wharf, 11am for 11.30am visit our website and RSVP
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/default.asp?pageRef=394

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is for the third year launching the Award in memory of Una Padel.

It will be an opportunity to ensure that Una’s dedication, work and commitment continue to encourage and inspire practitioners in the field. the award is in aid of acknowledging such outstanding and previously unrecognised contributions to social justice. It also seeks to ensure that Una’s values of dedication and commitment beyond the call of duty will continue to encourage and inspire others.

To find out more download the flyer, click here:

Or visit the website here

 

Dame Anne Owers, publishing her seventh prison inspection report at the end of last month, fired warning shots about almost every aspect of our prison system. Her findings, alarming but recurrent, once again expose the inadequacies of prison policy. The stark conclusion that government continues to fail to tackle drugs in prison is one of the most concerning.

The prison drugs trade, valued at a staggering annual £100 million by the former head of treatment policy at NOMS, is rife. So deeply saturated is the system that prisoners, such as a recent recovering heroin addict, are desperately attempting to flee custody and avoid their inevitable relapse.