🎥 Missed our Women's Network meeting with David Gauke on the Independent Sentencing Review's impact on women? Catch the full recording now! Watch here: clinks.org/our-work/women#co… #SentencingReview #WomenInJustice

The #SentencingReview will have limited impact on a prison like @HMP_Wandsworth where half the prisoners are on remand and where access to education and training is poor. This is unfinished business if we really want to reduce reoffending

🔎 The review asks big questions about our justice system. Let’s keep the conversation going. #SentencingReview

This thread from @live_life_safe is important in the context of the #sentencingreview #Stalking

❗️NEW RECALL MODEL PUTS PUBLIC AT RISK Here's just a glimpse of the convicted criminals released early from prison who are now wanted for recall. If you know where they are, contact police or @CrimestoppersUK. The so-called 'Independent Sentencing Review' has set out plans to weaken the recall system—restricting probation officers’ ability to protect the public and ensure justice for victims. Pro-criminal activists will cheer. They’ve long dismissed “non-compliance” as no big deal—despite the risks to victims, witnesses, and the law-abiding majority. Public protection should be strengthened, not sacrificed. We must now brace for more crime—including serious offences—committed by offenders who should have been recalled to prison. #SentencingReview

People want a justice system that works, not one lurching from crisis to crisis. Overcrowded prisons & short-term fixes fuel reoffending & fail communities, at huge public cost. Today’s #SentencingReview offers a credible plan to break this cycle (1/3) lawgazette.co.uk/news/gauke-…

Paul Kohler LibDem MP called Jenrick Shadow Leader of the Opposition 😂 #politicslive #sentencingreview

Josh Babarinde, LibDem Justice spokesperson rightly calling out Jenrick and the Tories. “Under Tories 10,083 prisoners released early with no exclusions for domestic abusers”. I don’t recall the media reporting that. #politicslive #sentencingreview

The report of the Independent Sentencing Review promises a fresh approach to sentencing, which is undoubtedly needed to deal with the crisis in the criminal justice system. We're pleased that many of our proposals have become recommendations in the report. We welcome the presumption against short custodial sentences of less than 12 months, as we've long said that they are counter-productive for many offenders and rarely effective in reducing reoffending – which is why for magistrates, custody is already a last resort. We're pleased that the Independent Review has accepted our point that short custodial sentences should still be retained for magistrates to use when all other suitable options have run out – for example, for domestic abuse cases. Read our full response here: magistrates-association.org.… And tune into @LBCNews at 11.40am to hear our national chair discuss our response: globalplayer.com/live/lbcnew… #SentencingReview #magistrates

Pact CEO @AndyKeenDowns CBE responds to the Independent #SentencingReview published today, highlighting the urgent need for improved regimes and engagement with prisoners’ families (link below). #CriminalJustice #PrisonReform

🚨 'PRISON DOESN'T WORK', THEY SAY Tomorrow we'll be told, yet again, that in the UK we send too many people to prison for too long. We'll be told that prison doesn't work. Don't believe a word of it. Take the man below, who has previous convictions for 21 offences against children. He has been caught again, while out in the community - alone with a six-year-old girl that he was grooming in south London. The only way to protect children from men like this is to prevent them from committing offences. On the current sentencing options available, that means prison. They should be kept there for a very long time. Sadly, Sky News is already reporting that "sex offenders and domestic abusers" could be released early under the plans to be announced tomorrow. Such a move - like the underlying failure to build sufficient prison places by successive governments - will serve to put children and the wider public at risk of serious harm. If we are to make the UK the safest place to live, work and raise a family, we must ensure sufficient prison capacity is built - and that these prisons are run efficiently and effectively. #SentencingReview

📢 Still time to register! 💻 Free Webinar - ‘The 2024/25 Sentencing Review’ 📅 Thu 27 Feb, 5pm Co-hosted with @TheHowardLeague, the panel will discuss the #SentencingReview 2024/25, sentencing inflation & its impact on the prison population. Register▶️ tinyurl.com/2s45dpx6

Last year, 229 pregnant women were held in prison. Community based alternatives are essential to protect mothers and babies @LucyBaldwin08 @tanya_capper @kirstykitchen Miranda Davies @NuffieldFound @UniofHerts @UH_HSK @UHertsResearch @OSTCharity @TreviWomen #sentencingreview

Families of prisoners are not heard enough when we talk about criminal justice. In our submission to #SentencingReview ⁦@DavidGauke⁩ we argue that maintaining family connections can reduce reoffending and support community sentences wandsworthprisoncampaign.co.…

Interesting to see the Independent Sentencing Review in England & Wales have launched an open call for evidence, inviting people to focus on 7 themes 👇 consult.justice.gov.uk/digit… #Criminology #Law #Probation #Prison #Victims #SentencingReview

In this Clinks blog, CEO Anne Fox shares insight on the sentencing review and prison capacity 🏛️, including measures to increase prison capacity, longer Home Detention Curfew and a recall policy reform. 👇 clinks.org/node/3260 #PrisonReform #SentencingReview

A credible #SentencingReview must draw on perspectives of prison and probation staff who implement courts’ decisions, NGOs, and above all people who have served prison and/or community sentences. Any review will otherwise be lop-sided and lack all legitimacy.

Better to avoid the term ‘alternatives to custody’. This instates prison as a benchmark by which all other punishments are to be assessed. This is legally incorrect and morally wrong. It’s a bad mistake to try to make other sanctions as prisonlike as possible #SentencingReview.

Levels of sentencing are just a matter of habit, not based on evidence or principle. Policy takes no account of effects. For example, many judges emphasise deterrence, without the least idea of the extent to which this is being achieved or is even achievable. #SentencingReview

Policing / punishment are not ‘the answer’ to crime. If we think this, “... we are tempted to adopt barbarous measures out of disappointment, or foolish ones of out despair, simply because we fail to achieve what we have no right to hope for in the first place.” #sentencingreview