Gauke’s sentencing review: a missed chance for true penal reform
Labour’s cautious reform plan tackles prison overcrowding but fails to challenge the system’s core flaws or offer a true path...
Read moreDetailsFrances Crook was chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform from 1996 to 2021, responsible for research programmes and campaigns to raise public awareness about the penal system. She is now co-convenor of the Commission on Political Power, the purpose of which is to generate a national debate on potential legislative and structural reform of our political system. Frances has previously been an elected councillor, non-executive NHS director and university governor.
Labour’s cautious reform plan tackles prison overcrowding but fails to challenge the system’s core flaws or offer a true path...
Read moreDetailsLabour must ditch the half-measures and embrace bold constitutional reform to restore trust and reconnect politics with the people
Read moreDetailsThere’s broad public support for legislation on assisted dying, but the government's bill is a mess – far better to...
Read moreDetailsPoliticians continue to pursue the false economy of promising more prisons rather than address underlying social causes of crime
Read moreDetailsWe need a national debate about legislative and structural reform of our political system, including the potential creation of a...
Read moreDetailsThe Commission on Political Power’s co-convenor considers much-needed democratic reform to redress the UK's balance of executive power
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