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Payment by Results is the new wonder solution to all government woes according to some simple-minded politicians, and therefore it damned-we...

'Steady as she goes No1!' is pretty much the message from Joe Kuipers the Captain of the good ship Avon and Somerset in a recent ci...

Regular readers will be aware that I've been following Ben Gunn on his journey from being one of Britain's longest serving prisoner...

In December 2010, when this blog was still relatively new and I was in a particularly depressive state of mind, I published an ominous-sound...

We all know most politicians of every persuasion are professional liars and not to be trusted in normal circumstances, but this is a battle ...

More details are beginning to emerge concerning the timeline for the proposed probation omnishambles and I'm grateful to a reader for su...

George Monbiot has written a moving piece  in the Guardian today about the tragic loss of little April Jones and the effect it's had on ...

No doubt wishing to try and further his political career, I notice that Justice Minister Chris Grayling has been one of the first to agree  ...

When Chris Grayling began plotting the demise of the Probation Service he realised there were one or two problems. Even he could see that th...

This post was intended to be about the eternal conflict between punishment and rehabilitation using the example of how Community Service was...