I am an occasional user of commuter trains, and from time to time I have criminological thoughts on them.  A quick search of the internet shows that many people have many of the same thoughts but ...

Last week I wrote that a coherent plan of action to control and reduce the prison population in the UK was desperately needed to arrest the alarming drift towards ever higher prison numbers.

So wh...

When the full force of political, public and media opinion was being convulsed by the fallout from the high profile James Bulger murder, I was tasked in my role as a probation officer to prepare...

I’ve been tracking the UK prison population since the beginning of the year to get a sense of some of the underlying trends.

My interest here is the UK prison population, not just the prison pop...

Keeping in touch with family and friends while in prison, makes a huge difference to chances of resettlement on release. While I am in prison, it is hard for my partner. The high cost of phone c...