On Probation Blog

What is it about any discourse on drugs recently that brings out so many unattractive characters? First we had the Guardian-inspired debate ...

In recent years politicians of all persuasions in this country have clocked up an unenviable record for talking crap when venturing into the...

On occasion you hear or see something that doesn't quite equate with your normal experience and as a result, just for a moment possibly,...

I guess some regular readers might be pondering why this blog seems to have dried up of late? Have management caught up with him? Has there ...

I have been stirred from my recent sojourn by the recent report on HMP Durham by Nick Hardwick, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons. He confirms ...

Yes it's true. At a time of supposed falling crime rates and in what can only be described as a stroke of genius, those boffins at the H...

As children I suspect most of us are taught to tell the truth. I can well remember getting a good hiding when a pathetic attempt to plant bl...

I think everyone would agree that finding a newly-released prisoner a job as soon as possible would be A Good Thing. Surely it must therefor...

I must admit that over the years I've always had a degree of naive astonishment in relation to the amount of sensitive information appea...

At various times in my career I've considered the option of working in a prison, but always rejected it. When I started, some probation ...